Yoko Ono Quotes

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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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Don't ever give up on life. Life can be so beautiful, especially after you've spent a lot of time with it.

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

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There is a saying that a glass is half empty or half full, depending on how you look at it. Well, we all know that one. But we cannot just say, okay so half full is how we should look at things. No. We have to go even further in our observation and realize that the glass is actually 100 percent full: 50 percent with water and 50 percent with air.

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Hide until everybody goes home. Hide until everybody forgets about you. Hide until everybody dies.

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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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I don't know if I've learned so much from people as from events. Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.

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If all of us just loved and cared for one person each. That is all it takes. Love breeds love. Maybe then we will be able to prevent each other from going insane.

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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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I usually stay away from being carried away,
But one day I saw a silver horse.
I thought he might take me to that somewhere high,
I thought he might take me to that deep blue sky. I came to realize that the horse had no wings.
No wings, well, it wasn't so bad, you know. I learnt to travel the world around
And run on the ground in the morning.
And that's the story of a wandering soul,
A story of a dreamer.

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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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You don't need talent to be an artist. 'Artist' is just a frame of mind. Anybody can be an artist, anybody can communicate if they are desperate enough.

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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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I thank Pussy Riot for standing firmly in their belief for Freedom of Expression, and making all women of the world proud to be women.

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Unclog your mind. Unclog your room. Arrange your room in a way you wish your mind would be.

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Tape the sound of the moon fading at dawn. Give it to your mother to listen to when she's in sorrow.

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All my concerts had no sounds in them: they were completely silent…People had to make their own music in their minds.

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John and I felt that we were like people in an H. G. Wells story. Two people who are walking so fast that nobody else can see them.

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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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In classical music, people were doing very complex things, for the sake of being complex. I learned that rock, with two simple chords, can bring an incredible communication of the spirit.

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

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Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world.
Power works in mysterious ways. You don't have to do much. Visualise the domino effect And just start thinking PEACE.
The message will circulate faster than you think. It's Time For Action. The Action is PEACE. Spread the word. Spread PEACE. I love you!

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There is within me this feeling of guilt because I couldn't stop it.

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