Gerald Vann Quotes

Being young and female in America, you watch a lot of T.V., and you grow up on false images of what love truly is. We think the man with the best rap will protect and save us, about it's not usually that way. Then you learn love is something deeper and purer in form.

What matters to me is learning and growing, and getting to do what I love to do. As long as I can do that, I'm happy.

I think love changes you over time, and whether you have good or bad experiences, you always grow and learn from them.

As I grow through love, so grows my joy, ever more present, ever more constant.

People grow up by living.

Every day we are offered new means for learning and growing in love.

You learn to love by loving.

Life is about love and experience and learning and evolving and I am richer and thankful for all of the experiences in my life.

I learned a world from each / one whom I loved

Love is still something I'm learning about.

I would never felt good if I hadn't experienced losing, because losing is part of your life. And it something that if I could teach people to understand that I think it could help them a lot.

So many believe that it is love that grows, but it is the knowing that grows and love simply expands to contain it.

You know, the thing about life and love is that they are both ever-changing while people seldom are. (Acheron)

The will to grow is, in essence, the same phenomenon as love. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

We fall in love with one version of someone and we expect them to stay that way, but they never do.

I've come to believe that seeking happiness is not a frivolous pursuit. It's honorable and necessary. And most people forget even to thing about it.

If you can grow in love, you will grow in awareness. If you grow in awareness, you will grow in love.

I get to help people create lives that make them happier and healthier than they were yesterday. I knock on wood that my family is healthy and happy and love each other.

Love is a lesson worth learning.

I sometimes say to people who have life-challenging illnesses: "Right now you are tempted to think that if you were physically well you would be happy. But if that were true, everybody who is physically well would be happy."

For no matter what we achieve, if we don't spend the vast majority of our time with people we love and respect, we cannot possibly have a great life. But if we spend the vast majority of our time with people we love and respect - people we really enjoy being on the bus with and who will never disappoint us - then we will almost certainly have a great life, no matter where the bus goes. The people we interviewed from the good-to-great companies clearly loved what they did, largely because they loved who they did it with.

Romances paint at full length people's wooing. But only give a bust of marriages.

When the founders wrote about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, they didn't mean longer vacations and more comfortable hammocks. They meant the pursuit of learning. The pursuit of improvement and excellence. In hard work is happiness.

You can believe in Fung Shui if you want, but ultimately people control their own fate. The most important thing is to improve yourself and give it your best. Then many things previously thought to be impossible will become possible.