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John Lennon

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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.

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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.

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Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe.

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

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Everything is clearer when you're in love.

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I was feeling insecure you might not love me anymore

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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.

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The more I see, the less I know for sure.

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09Undated

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

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Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.

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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.

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How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?

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Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.

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There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.

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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.

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Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends

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You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

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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?

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Nothing is real.

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Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives

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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.

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God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

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Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

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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.

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