Yoko Ono Quotes

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Walking on thin ice, I'm paying the price.
I'm throwing the dice in the air.
Why must we learn it the hard way
And play the game of life with your heart?

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The odds of not meeting in this life are so great that every meeting is like a miracle. It's a wonder that we don't make love to every single person we meet.

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Stand in the evening light until you become transparent or until you fall asleep.

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I gave you my life, you gave me my life.
Like a gush of wind in my hair.
Why do we forget what's been said
And play the game of life with our hearts?

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You can call it freedom, you can call it a situation that was not very conducive to having a relationship with your parents. I thought that that was life. It was the only life I knew.

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Be silent in a group of people
See what they reveal to you.

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Look at a star in the sky not as something unreachable but as a planet you would visit one day.

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All my life, I have been in love with the sky. Even when everything was falling apart around me, the sky was always there for me.

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Tape the sound of friends laughing together. Save it for a rainy day.

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Be kind to yourself this evening. Buy something for yourself. Treat yourself to a meal. Look in the mirror and give yourself a smile

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Think of the Earth as a turning point in eternity. Think of the Earth as a meeting point in infinity.

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Watch the sun until it comes into your body and stays as a tiny sun. It will keep your face shining even in the coldest of winter.

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When all that hate energy was focused on me, it was transformed into a fantastic energy. It was supporting me. If you are centered and you can transform all this energy that comes in, it will help you. If you believe it is going to kill you, it will kill you.

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I dedicate this light tower to John Lennon
my love for you is forever
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October 9th 2007

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Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.

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I think one of the reasons that I'm surviving is the incredible negative power that was trying to erase me. It was not the truth that I broke up the Beatles.

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If your judgement is clouded, you must be carrying too many things which are being a burden to you.

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Imagine the clouds dripping Dig a hole in your garden to put them in

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I wonder why men can get serious at all. They have this delicate long thing hanging outside their bodies, which goes up and down by its own will.... If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself.

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If Lennon were alive today, he probably would have reconciled with the man he accused of having "made a fool of everyone." John would have been the first one now, if he had been there, to recognise and acknowledge what Maharishi has done for the world and appreciate it.

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Use your blood to paint. Keep painting until you faint. Keep painting until you die.

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Give death announcements each time you move instead of giving announcements of the change of address. Send the same when you die.

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I didn't think I would be a widow. Nobody thinks they are going to be a widow. And the minute I was a widow, I started to see what a test it is to be a widow in this society.

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Sean is half Japanese and half English. All these people who have two or three countries inside of them, they used to be messed up. Now there's so many of them, it's a society in itself.

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I go to the park on Sundays. And I see men pushing babies. And it's beautiful. They don't know that John was the first one to do that. The very first one. No man would be caught doing that before John.

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