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Love Quotes by John Lennon

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John Lennon compares love to a flower that must be given space to grow. He calls love a promise and a souvenir that stays with you. He also reminds us that true happiness lives inside, not in another person. He believes that love, like a song, needs both care and freedom to stay alive.

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Love is a promise; love is a souvenir.

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It made me high. It really did.

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Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV

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Get back to where you once belonged,

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I don't believe in Elvis.

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Rituals are important.

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Control yourself. You'll spurt.

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Tell the truth and make it rhyme

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Meanings of all songs come after they are recorded. Someone else has to interpret them

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Happiness is inside you, not with another person

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"All you need is love." I believe it. It's damn hard, but I absolutely believe it.

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

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Getting out of one car and getting into another

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Love, Love, Love. All you need is love. Love is all you need.

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

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The people have the power. All we have to do is awaken the power in the people.

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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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If there's anything that you want, If there's anything I can do, Just call on me, And I'll send it along with…

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When I was a child I experienced moments of not wanting to see the ugliness, not wanting to see not being wanted.…

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Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.

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Make your own dream .I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you.

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Free all the prisoners everywhere, all they want is truth and justice, all they need is love and care.

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We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.

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

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We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot…

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I don't have any romanticism about any part of my past. I think of it only inasmuch as it gave me pleasure…

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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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In 'Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds' I was visualizing Alice in Wonderland, an image of this female who would come and…

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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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Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King are great examples of fantastic nonviolents who died violently. I can never work that out. We're…

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I believe Jesus was right, Buddha was right, and all of those people like that are right. They're all saying the same…

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We had one thing in common - we were in love. But love is just a gift, and it doesn't answer everything…

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It just was a gradual development over the years. I mean last year was 'all you need is love.' This year, it's…

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I used to be cruel to my woman, and physically - any woman. I was a hitter. I couldn't express myself and…

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“Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup, They slither wildly as they slip away across the universe Pools…

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“But I can be alone without Yoko, but I just have no wish to be. There’s no reason on earth why I…

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Love is the Answer. What was the Question?

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Love is the flower you've got to let grow.

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Money can't buy me love.

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Love is needing to be loved.

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