JOHN LENNON

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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 don’t believe in killing whatever the reason.”

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