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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
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Imagine ... Imagine no religion.
- John Lennon
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
- John Lennon 
All we are saying is give peace a chance.
- John Lennon
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Imagine...
- John Lennon
All you need is love.
- John Lennon
I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!
- John Lennon
I get by with a little help from my friends.
- John Lennon
The more I see, the less I know for sure.
- John Lennon
Everything is clearer when you're in love.
- John Lennon
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.
- John Lennon
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
- John Lennon
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
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
- John Lennon
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon
You don't need anybody to tell you
who you are or what you are.
You are what you are!
- John Lennon
You're just left with yourself all the time,
whatever you do anyway.
You've got to get down to your
own God in your own temple.
It's all down to you, mate.
- John Lennon
Yeah we all shine on, like the moon,
and the stars, and the sun.
- John Lennon
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
You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.
- John Lennon
It doesn't matter how long my hair is
or what color my skin is
or whether I'm a woman or a man.
- John Lennon
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities
and the responsibility that we all had.
It wasn't the answer.
It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
- John Lennon
He didn't come out of my belly, but my God,
I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal,
and how he sleeps,
and the fact that he swims like a fish
because I took him to the ocean.
I'm so proud of all those things.
But he is my biggest pride.
- John Lennon
When you're drowning, you don't say,
"I would be incredibly pleased if someone
would have the foresight to notice
me drowning and come and help me,"
you just scream.
- John Lennon
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
If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche
that must have been left behind in the Sixties,
that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.
- John Lennon
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
Love is the answer, and you know that for sure;
Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.
- John Lennon
Part of me suspects that I'm a loser,
and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.
- John Lennon
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
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Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
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Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
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Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
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Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
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Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
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Be the Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
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Life expands to fill your dreams.
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One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...
It's about learning to Dance in the Rain.
- Vivian Greene
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Joy is a choice - but it isn't an easy choice.
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Gather strength from life's storms.
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Choose your Habits, Choose your Life.
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The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
Life is a sum of all your choices.
- Albert Camus
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
If I am happy in spite of my deprivations,
if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith,
so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life.
If, in short, I am an optimist,
my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.
- Helen Keller
...
Helen Keller (1880-1968) overcame being both deaf and blind
to become a famous author, lecturer, and activist
for women's suffrage, workers' rights, and ending war.
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal
with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned.
- The Buddha
Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.
- Anonymous
Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Would you rather be right or happy?
- A Course in Miracles
Set Life's Rhythm with Your Heart-Drum
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Create happiness for others.
- Dale Carnegie
Compassion is the basis of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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