John Lennon was not only an inspirational musician he also wise man with great life experience. Here are some of his best motivational quotes that will make anyone embrace life.
1. "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 I grew up. I wrote down 'happy.' They told me I didn't understand the assignment. I told them they didn't understand life."
2. "Reality leaves a lot to the imagination."
3."Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted."
4. "Imagine all the people living life in peace. 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 be as one."
5. "If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal."
6. "A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality."
7. "Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans."
8. “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.”
9. "Everything is clearer when you're in love."
10. "As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot."
11. "She inspired all this creation in me. It wasn't that she inspired the songs; she inspired me."
12. "It is a teacher-pupil relationship. That's what people don't understand. She's the teacher and I'm the pupil. I'm the famous one, the one who's supposed to know everything, but she's my teacher."
13. "You're born in pain. Pain is what we are in most of the time, and I think that the bigger the pain, the more God you look for."
14. "The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that ... it's all illusion."
15. "I couldn't think of the next few years; it's abysmal thinking of how many years there are to go, millions of them. I just play it by the week."
16. “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.”
17. “I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?”
18. “When you're drowning you don't think, 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would notice I'm drowning and come and rescue me.' You just scream.”
19. “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. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.”
20. “Trying to please everybody is impossible – if you did that, you’d end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You’ve just got to make the decision about what you think is your best, and do it.”
21. “How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?”
22. “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."
23. “We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.”
24. “I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it. It's just getting out of one car, and into another.”
25. “Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.”
Thank you, John Winston Ono Lennon, forever we thank you.
