31 life changing John Lennon quotes

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1. “Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans.”

2. “Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.”

3. “Music is everybody’s possession. It’s only publishers who think that people own it.”

4. “Only by trying on other people’s clothes do we find what size we are.”

5. “Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It’s quite possible to do anything, but not if you put it on the leaders and the parking meters. Don’t expect Carter or Reagan or John Lennon or Yoko Ono or Bob Dylan or Jesus Christ to come and do it for you. You have to do it yourself.”

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6. “Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace… we just need to declare it.”

7. “Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realized that the imagery in my mind wasn’t insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.”

8. “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.”

9. “Happiness is just how you feel when you don’t feel miserable.”

10. “If everyone could just be happy with themselves and the choices people around them make, the world would instantly be a better place!”

11. “You know the way people begin to look like their dogs? Well, we’re beginning to look like each other.”