John Lennon

You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

Living is easy with eyes closed.

Possession isn’t nine-tenths of the law. It’s nine-tenths of the problem.

I don’t intend to be a performing flea anymore. I was the dreamweaver, but although I’ll be around I don’t intend to be running at 20,000 miles an hour trying to prove myself. I don’t want to die at 40.

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? Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

People ignore the thing they have the most power over. I know so many people who will go to a protest and do something big on an issue. But they won’t deal with that issue in their home.

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.

We shall see but little way if we require to understand what we see. How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding! How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile!

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

That which we call sin in others, is experiment for us.

It’s not the adversity, but how you face it.

The connection between us runs so strong and deep. It’s like a steel cable stretching across the ocean bed, so many fathoms below, that even the most skilled and courageous of deep sea divers cannot reach it to cut it. It remains strong, silent, invisible, invincible.

We are wiser than we know.

The late M. Venizelos observed that in all her wars Englandhe should have said Britain, of coursealways wins one battlethe last.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Why do you treat me as they do, as though I were exactly what I want to be. Why do we treat people that way?

Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain’t so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.