The most poignant quotes
What the rich and famous and wise said
Thoughtful and attentive world to contenplate learn from
Note: Throughout history the rich, famous and wise have said things that have been recorded in the form of quote. It is the study of these quotes that give insight into life.
John Lennon (1940 ~ 1980 )
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
There's a great woman behind every idiot.
Would those of you in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.
Nobody controls me. I'm uncontrollable. The only one who can control me is me, and that's just barely possible.
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
What does it mean when a person is such a pacifist that they get shot? I can never understand that.
When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.
Love is like a flower, give it time and it will grow
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man.
Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law its nine-tenths of the problem. Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given, never forgotten, never let it disappear.
Love is the answer and you know that for sure.
There's high, and then there's high, and to get really high--i mean so high that you can walk on the water, that high--that's where i'm goin'.
You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!
I am going into an unknown future, but I'm still all here, and still while there's life, there's hope.
If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or my music, then in that respect you can call me that...I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given, never forgotten, never let it disappear.
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. Get out there and get peace, think peace, and live peace and breathe peace, and you'll get it as soon as you like.
Beatles Quotes
All You Need is Love. Love is all you need.
When you find yourself in the thick of it, help yourself to a bit of what is all around you, silly girl.
And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind.
How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people, now that you know who you are?
The deeper you go, the higher you fly. The higher you fly, the deeper you go.
I now realize that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache. -Paul
For I don't care too much for money, For money can't buy me love.
I'm fixing a hole where the rain gets in and stops my mind from wandering where it will go.
Give Peace a Chance
And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend.
One thing I can tell you is we got to be free.
Let it be, let it be. There will come an answer, let it be.
With our love we could save the world.-George Harrison
Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you-George Harrison