Top 25 Quotes by John Lennon of 624 - Page 2

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be.

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be.

John Lennon

Life, Being Yourself, Fate

John Lennon (2002). “The Songs of John Lennon: The Beatles Years”, p.215, Berklee Press

Love is the Answer. What was the Question?

John Lennon

Love Is, Answers

The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn't represent the people. It controls them.

John Lennon

Government, People, Political

The establishment will irritate you - pull your beard, flick your face - to make you fight. Because once they've got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don't know how to handle is non-violence and humor.

John Lennon

Fighting, Beard, Faces

YouTube Chanel "Beatlemaniac1960"/ "John Lennon about violence", www.youtube.com. October 8, 2011.

Don't hate what you don't understand!

John Lennon

Hate, Don't Hate, Network Marketing

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.

John Lennon

Inspirational, God, Spiritual

Nobody controls me. I'm uncontrollable. The only one who can control me is me, and even that's barely possible.

John Lennon

Motivational, Success, Uncontrollable

A day spent wasting time, that you enjoyed, is not time wasted.

John Lennon

Time, Wasting Time, Wasted Time

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

John Lennon

Hippie, Artist, Reflection

John Lennon, Wulf Herzogenrath, Dorothée Hansen (1995). “John Lennon: drawings, performances, films”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

A dream you dream alone is only a dream.

John Lennon

Dream, High School Graduation, I Love My Husband

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

John Lennon

Love Yourself, Things In Life, Love Of My Life

You are not your emotions,you have emotions,and you can master them.

John Lennon

Emotion, Masters

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything.

John Lennon

Perhaps Love, Looks, Way

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

Life, Depression, Running

"The Beatles Anthology". Book by The Beatles, 2000.

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

Inspirational, Thinking, Decision

Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.

John Lennon

Inspirational, Love Yourself, Things In Life

"Celebrating John Lennon’s Birthday in His Own Inspiring Words" by Jeryl Brunner,, parade.com. October 09, 2014.

Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly.

John Lennon

Bird, Wild Birds

paranoia is just a heightened sense of awareness

John Lennon

Awareness, Paranoia

I cannot be what I am not.

John Lennon

Positive, Positivity

One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.

John Lennon

Inspirational, Pain, Emotional

Song: Crippled Inside, Album: Imagine

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

Inspirational, Life, Faith