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Life Quotes by Yoko Ono

40 Life quotes by Yoko Ono

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Yoko Ono says a simple smile in the mirror can shift your day. She invites you to try three days of speaking only kindly, and to choose dancing over marching as a way to move through life. She also reminds us that when life changes, we can help change the world, and that surviving many years brings a quiet pride.

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Life with another person is always difficult.

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I'm not going to doubt my life.

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It's better to dance than to march through life.

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Art is my life and my life is art.

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My life was pretty rough.

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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.

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I don't work for a long time on anything. I don't have too much time in life.

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You're filled with so much life. Is there any reason why all of us are not full of life?

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The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.

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Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.

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Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear and we all just do our best.

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The thing that would most improve my life is 27 hours in a day. I could meet all my deadlines.

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Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.

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All my life, I have been in love with the sky. Even when everything was falling apart around me, the sky was…

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It is very difficult for us to know we love somebody because it is an insecure position to be in. But in…

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There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each…

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Life keeps getting better. If anything, you start to carry a certain pride in having survived all those years.

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We get shy about saying things like I love you. Life is so short. It's crazy, that we hesitate to express our…

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“Try to say nothing negative about anybody. a) for three days b) for forty-five days c) for three months See what happens…

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Don't ever give up on life. Life can be so beautiful, especially after you've spent a lot of time with it.

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You know, something happened to me when I became 70. I started to feel a tremendous love for the human race, and…

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I think I'm an observer in a way. And my life was not so - well, my life was bad too -…

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Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would…

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You are beautiful. Don't ever think you are not. It may be such a compliment that does not come from a man…

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If your life changes, we can change the world, too.

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Transform jealousy to admiration, and what you admire will become part of your life.

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I have only one life, so I want to make sure it's a good one.

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What a beautiful future it will be! Don't worry about life being boring. It will never be.

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Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created.

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When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: 'Just breathe.'

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You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.

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I was being hated for about 40 or 50 years by the whole world, but it did not destroy me, and it…

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Walking on thin ice, I'm paying the price. I'm throwing the dice in the air. Why must we learn it the hard…

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A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I've got through it all without a rule book, taking…

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Try to say nothing negative about anybody for three days, for forty-five days, for three months. See what happens to your life.

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My life has always been unplanned. So when something comes along, I feel like, Why not give it a try? It's fun…

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I'm a politician. Politics is just a convenience for our life and we just have to create a beautiful world together that…

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The sky is always there for me, while my life has been going through many, many changes. When I look up the…

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The odds of not meeting in this life are so great that every meeting is like a miracle. It's a wonder that…

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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.

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Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.

Think of the Earth as a turning point in eternity. Think of the Earth as a meeting point in infinity.

If your life changes, we can change the world, too.

When people get cynical about love, they should look at us [Yoko and John Lennon] and see it is possible

True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.

The first idea, the first art piece I ever did, was when I was four. I cut the seed of a pear in half…

John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.

I always believed that my work should be unfinished in the sense that I encourage people to add their creativity to it, either conceptually…

Losing my daughter was a very serious pain. There was always some empty space in my heart.

People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees…

Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.

It's difficult to explain love. You want to explain water? You need a book for it. There are many different ways to explain what…

Being alone is very difficult.

Many people do remember their births, but they deny it.