I found I was having continually to please the sort of people I'd always hated when I was a child. This began to bring me back to reality. John Lennon More Quotes by John Lennon More Quotes From John Lennon Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones John Lennon best-friend inspirational friendship 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, and I told them they didn’t understand life. John Lennon motivational inspirational life Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted. John Lennon inspirational love life I never went to high school reunions. My thing is, out of sight, out of mind. That's my attitude toward life. So I don't have any romanticism about any part of my past. John Lennon attitude past school Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears. John Lennon inspirational friendship life 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. John Lennon marriage love life 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. John Lennon sad beautiful inspirational Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end. John Lennon encouraging tattoo inspirational We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight. John Lennon inspirational love peace You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are! John Lennon happiness love life Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it. John Lennon depression running life A mistake is only an error, it becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it John Lennon errors mistake inspirational There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be. John Lennon being-yourself fate life Peace in your mind, peace on earth, peace at work, peace at home, peace in the world. John Lennon mind home world 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? John Lennon faith inspirational life Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. John Lennon inspirational life funny It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it matters only that you love John Lennon inspirational love life 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. John Lennon decision inspirational thinking Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends John Lennon motivational birthday inspirational 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. John Lennon dream inspirational life
