Yoko Ono Quotes

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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 a dolphin dancing in the sky. Let it dance with joy. Think of yourself at the bottom of the ocean watching.

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Transform jealousy to admiration, and what you admire will become part of your life.

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In a day, sometimes I feel so much love for the world, I think my heart is bursting. Sometimes, I feel so scared, I want to shrink myself even further. I think that's what happened to us gods and goddesses. Like the dinosaurs, we realized that it's too dangerous to be so large. So we kept shrinking ourselves to what we are now. We might get even smaller. I see the sign in the engineers making smaller gadgets, smaller and smaller. Pretty soon, our fingers will be too large to operate them. So what are we doing? I trust in the human wisdom. We are incredibly intelligent beings. So we might know something without thinking that we know…. Well, even my best friend didn't know until now that I was thinking of crazy things like this.

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

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When you burn the chair, you suddenly realize that the chair in your mind did not burn or disappear

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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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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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It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.

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Back then, we didn't know anything, really. I look at videos and everyone is smoking. It's sort of annoying now.

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You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.

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Remember, our hearts are one. Even when we are at war with each other, our hearts are always beating in unison.

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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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I have a big job in addition to music: to keep his voice going.

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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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Kill all the men you have slept with. Put the bones in a box and send it into the sea with flowers.

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I just think it's wrong not to pursue the possibility of anything.

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

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The most frequent one that I get is, Can we change the lyrics to "Imagine" — "No religion, too"? The religious people want it.

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

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