John Lennon Quotes About Life

Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.

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

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

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends, but it’ll always get you the right ones.

Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure.

Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted.

Life is a ride that has no rest stops, so make the most of the journey.

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.

When you do something beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun, every morning is a beautiful spectacle, and most of the audience sleeps.

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.

Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.

Love yourself and the world will love you.

Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And I’m un bastard.

John Lennon Quotes About Life part 2

Love is like a flower—you’ve got to let it grow.

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

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

I don’t believe in killing whatever the reason.

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

There are no problems, only solutions.

Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.

The worst thing you can do to any woman is to take her for granted.

Life is what happens when you’re making other plans.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

I’m not afraid of death because I don’t believe in it. It’s just getting out of one car and into another.

You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way.

If you want peace, you won’t get it with violence.

Life’s just a game we play.

You’re all geniuses, and you’re all beautiful. You don’t need anyone to tell you who you are. You are what you are.

If someone thinks that love and peace are a cliche that must have been left behind in the ’60s, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

We live in a strange time where we value material things more than human beings.

The love you take is equal to the love you make.

Why in the world are we here? Surely not to live in pain and fear.

We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.

Time is something you can’t buy. It is possible to buy furniture second or third hand, but you don’t buy time.

Reality is just a controlled hallucination.

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

You don’t need anybody to tell you how to live your life.

I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

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.

There are only four questions of value in life. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same: only love.

Living is easy with eyes closed.

In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

If someone thinks that love and peace are a cliche that must have been left behind in the ’60s, that’s their problem. Love and peace are eternal.

I’m not really a career person; I’m a gardener, basically.

There is an alternative to war. It’s staying in bed and growing your hair.