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Life Quotes by John Lennon

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John Lennon talks about life as a chance to stay free and simple. He mentions a bird flying without borders and imagines a world without countries, where peace is declared like a war. He also stresses honesty, saying he never pretends to have all the answers.

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I'll probably be popped off by some loony.

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“Whatever gets you through your life 'salright, 'salright”

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Love means having to say you're sorry every fifteen minutes.

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Life is what happens when you make other plans.

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Everything is as important as everything else.

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Happiness is just how you feel when you don't feel miserable.

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Life doesn't imitate art...it is art!

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Imagine all the people living life in peace...

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The best things in life are free, but you can keep them for the birds and bees; I want money.

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Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace... we just need to declare it.

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Everything will be okay in the end ; if its not okay then its not the end .

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

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It looks like I'm going to be 40 and life begins at 40 - so they promise. And I believe it, too.

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Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends

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Life is what happens to you when you're busy making other plans.

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I want you to make love, not war, I know you've heard it before.

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Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope…

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If art were to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him…

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I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put…

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When I was 5 years old my mother told me that happiness was the key to life, when I went to school…

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I never went to high school reunions. My thing is, out of sight, out of mind. That's my attitude toward life. So…

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I'm cynical about society, politics, newspapers, government. But I'm not cynical about life, love, goodness, death. That's why I really don't want…

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There is no denying that we are still living in the capitalist world. I think that in order to survive and to…

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We all been playing those mind games forever, Some kinda druid dudes lifting the veil, Doing the mind guerrilla, Some call it…

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When I was 5 years old my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to…

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I think it's false, shallow, to be giving to others when your own need is great. The idea is not to comfort…

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My life with the Beatles had become a trap... I always remember to thank Jesus for the end of my touring days;…

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“They made us believe that each one of us is the half of an orange, and that life only makes sense when…

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If the masses started to accept UFOs, it would profoundly affect their attitude towards life, politics, everything. It would threaten the status…

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Carrying The Beatles' or the Sixties' dream around all your life is like carrying the Second World War and Glenn Miller around.…

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There are places I'll remember All my life though some have changed Some forever not for better Some have gone and some…

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We all been playing those mind games forever Some kinda druid dudes lifting the veil. Doing the mind guerrilla, Some call it…

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Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.

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I believe in everything until it's disproved.

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I don't stand back and judge - I do.

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Before Elvis there was nothing.

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Life is what's going on while your making other plans.

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Art is only a way of expressing pain.

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I don't believe in yesterday, by the way.

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Without a job all there is to life is boredom and insecurity.

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Imagine there's no heaven... it's easy if you try.

Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.

Love is like a flower - you've got to let it grow.

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