John Lennon
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Biography
John Winston Ono Lennon was an English musician, songwriter and activist. He gained global fame as the founder, co-lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the Beatles.
"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 live as one."
"Love is the flower you've got to let grow."
"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."
"We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it."
"Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears."
"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?"
"Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans."
"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."
"As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot."
"The more I see, the less I know for sure."
"A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality."
"One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside."
"There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be..."
"If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace."
"I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong."
"Living is Easy with Eyes Closed."
"If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal."
"And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it."
"Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe."
"Nothing is real."
"God is a concept by which we measure our pain."
"How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?"
"I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it.It's just getting out of one car, and into another."
"Imagine there's no countriesIt isn't hard to doNothing to kill or die forAnd no religion tooImagine all the peopleLiving life in peaceYou may say that I'm a dreamerBut I'm not the only oneI hope someday you'll join usAnd the world will be as one"
"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."