JOHN LENNON

“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance.”

“We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections.”

“And any time you feel the pain, hey Jude, refrain. Don’t carry the world upon your shoulders.”

“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”

“You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us. And the world will live as one.”

“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.”

“Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.”

“If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliché that must have been left behind in the 60s, that’s a problem. Peace and love are eternal.”

“When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.”

“I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.”

“I am going into an unknown future, but I’m still all here, and still while there’s life, there’s hope.”

“It’s being here now that’s important. There’s no past and there’s no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now.”

“You can judge a man’s true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.”

“Life is what happens to you when you’re busy making other plans.”

“I only had two alternatives. Give up or carry on.”

“Music is like a psychiatrist. You can tell your guitar things that you can’t tell people. And it will answer you with things people can’t tell you.”