John Lennon Quotes On Peace, Love And Life
John Lennon Quotes: Aside from creating an extraordinary amount of iconic songs, John Lennon was also capable of inspiring millions with a single spoken sentence. Not something you could easily attribute to many contemporary performers...
Here are 25 of his famous quotes to improve your day and get your mind working. Let us know which one's your favourite.
John Lennon Quotes
1. "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."
― John Lennon
2. "Love is the greatest refreshment in life."
― John Lennon
3. "I’m not really a career person; I’m a gardener, basically."
― John Lennon
4. "You see, we're influenced by whatever's going. Even if we're not influenced, we're all going that way at a certain time. If we played a Stones record now — and a Beatles record — and we've been way apart, you'd find a lot of similarities. We're all heavy. Just heavy."
― John Lennon, Rolling Stone, 1968
5. "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. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life."
― John Lennon
6. "My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn’t know how to cry. Simple.'
― John Lennon
7. "Love, Love, Love. All you need is love. Love is all you need"
― John Lennon
8. "I'm not telling. Lots more than I ever had before."
― John Lennon, Rolling Stone, 1971
9. "I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak."
― John Lennon
10. "You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth."
― John Lennon
11. "I believe in fairies, myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind."
― John Lennon
12. "Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end."
― John Lennon
13. "Life is very short, and there’s no time for fussing and fighting my friends."
― John Lennon
14. "It doesn't matter who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it only matters that you love!"
― John Lennon
15. "When you're thirty-five, you can't take as much booze ... and I always got a little violent on drink...So it was kind of self-destructive suicide side of me, which is resolving itself for the better, I believe, because I never enjoyed it..."
― John Lennon
16. "I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it. It's just getting out of one car, and into another."
― John Lennon
17. "Love is the Answer. What was the Question?"
― John Lennon
18. "I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong."
― John Lennon
19. "Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans."
― John Lennon
20. "You’re all geniuses, and you’re all beautiful. You don’t need anyone to tell you who you are. You are what you are. Get out there and get peace, think peace, and live peace and breathe peace, and you’ll get it as soon as you like."
― John Lennon
21. "Everyone loves you when you're six feet in the ground."
― John Lennon
22. "Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, Something you do , Something you are, And something you give away."
― John Lennon
23. "Creativity is a gift. It doesn’t come through if the air is cluttered."
― John Lennon
24. "When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when."
― John Lennon
25. "All we are saying is give peace a chance."
― John Lennon
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