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John Lennon Quotes

John Lennon QuotesLet’s celebrate John Lennon‘s birthday with some great quotes.

– “A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”

– “All we are saying is give peace a chance.”

– “All you need is love.”

– “As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.”

– “Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.”

– “Everybody loves you when you’re six foot in the ground.”

– “Everything is clearer when you’re in love.”

– “God is a concept by which we measure our pain.”

– “Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something.”

– “He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.”

– “I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?”

– “I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.”

– “I don’t believe in killing whatever the reason!”

– “I don’t know which will go first – rock ‘n’ roll or Christianity.”

– “I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people.”

– “If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.”

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

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

– “If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it ‘Chuck Berry’.”

– “Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.”

Famous Anger Quotes

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.” – Lee Iacocca

“Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.” – Maya Angelou

“He who angers you conquers you.” – Elizabeth Kenny

“Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.” – Mohandas Gandhi

“When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.” – Mark Twain

“Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.” – William Congreve

“You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.” – Buddha

“Anyone can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person at the right time and for the right purpose and in the right way – that is not within everyone’s power and that is not easy.” – Aristotle

“Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words.” – Dr. Joyce Brothers

Bob Marley Quotes

“Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality . Wake Up and Live!”

“Me only have one ambition, y’know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together – black, white, Chinese, everyone – that’s all.”

“Man is a universe within himself.”

“One good thing about music, when it hits- you feel no pain”

“Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds.”

“Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.”

“Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.”

“You ain’t gonna miss your water until your well runs dry”

“I have a BMW. But only because BMW stands for Bob Marley and The Wailers, and not because I need an expensive car”

“Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?”

“Just can’t live that negative way…make way for the positive day!”

“When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.”

“Don’t forget your history nor your destiny.”

“Conquer the devils with a little thing called love!”

“Excuse me while I light my spliff good God I gotta take a lift”

“When one door is closed, don’t you know, another is open.”

“Tell the children the truth.”

“The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.”

“Life and Jah are one in the same. Jah is the gift of existence. I am in some way eternal, I will never be duplicated. The sigularity of every man and woman is Jah’s gift. What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of what that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth”

“I drive a jeep. An old jeep, so nobody will say I’m driving a BMW anymore. I couldn’t stand that BMW, ha ha ha! BMW make pure trouble!”

Funny Quotes about Friends

– “He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.” – Oscar Wilde

– “A true friend stabs you in the front.” – Oscar Wilde

– “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.” – Oscar Wilde

– “I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.” – Oscar Wilde

– “It is a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.” – Benjamin Franklin

– “A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.” – Bernard Meltzer

– “Marriage is a sort of friendship recognized by the police.” – Anonymous

– “A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.” – Doug Larson

– “Friends are like bras: close to your heart and there for support.” – Anonymous

– “Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.” – Groucho Marx

– “Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.” – Anonymous

– “It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

– “Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

– “Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families.” – Anonymous

– “A friend doesn’t go on a diet because you are fat.” – Erma Bombeck

– “A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend – and he’s a priest.” – Erma Bombeck

– “One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.” – Clifton Fadiman

– “Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.” – Lord Chesterfield

– “A lifelong friend is someone you haven’t borrowed money from yet.” – Anonymous

– “A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.” – Abraham Lincoln

– “Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.” – Peter Ustinov

– “Friends are the siblings God never gave us.” – Mencius

– “One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends is that three out of four murders are committed by people who know the victim.” – George Carlin

– “A friend is someone who will bail you out of jail. A best friend is the one sitting next to you saying “boy was that fun.”” – The Maugles

– “Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.” – Samuel Butler

– “Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.” – Horace Walpole

– “You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.” – Harry S. Truman

– “I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places.” – Mark Twain

SpongeBob Quotes

“Look at all that warm, toasty fur.” – SpongeBob SquarePants

“It’s like a goldmin, but with fur.” – Patrick

“Gary, you are gonna finish your dessert, and you are gonna like it!” – SpongeBob SquarePants

“This city needs to be destroyed! Or at least painted another color.” – Squidward

“That’s no reason to go ripping people’s heads off boy.” – Mr. Crabs

“I can’t see my forehead!” – Patrick

“Do you smell it? That smell. A kind of smelly smell. The smelly smell that smells… smelly.” – Mr. Krabs

“Stupidity isn’t a virus… but it sure is spreadin’ like one!” – Sandy

“He washed my flipper!” – Pearl

“Holographic meatloaf! My favorite!” – Plankton

“People talk loud when they want to sound smart, right?” – Squidward

Dr. Shad Helmstetter’s “Choices” Quotes

These are 26 Quotes from Dr. Shad Helmstetter’s book named “Choices:

1 – “No one else can ever make your choices for you. Your choices are yours alone. They are as much a part of you as every breath you will take, every moment of your life.”

2 – “You may think that in life, a lot of things happen to you along the way. The truth is, in life, you happen to a lot of things along the way.”

3 – “Choosing to live your life by your own choice is the greatest freedom you will ever have.”

4 – “It is only when you exercise your right to choose that you can also exercise your right to change.”

5 – “It is your programming that has created your choices in the past. It is the choices you make today that are creating the programs of your future.”

6 – “If you were given only one choice: To choose or not to choose, which would you choose?”

7 – “The choices we make by accident are just as important as the choices we make by design.”

8 – “Another person’s choice is nothing more than another alternative for you to consider.”

9 – “There is no life as complete as the life that is lived by choice.”

10 – “There may be a thousand little choices in a day. All of them count.”

11 – “Whatever you choose, you might as well enjoy it. It is your choice.”

12 – “When you have a problem, make a choice…you’ll feel better.”

13 – “If you’d like to know what your choices have been, look at yourself and the life you have lived. What you see is the choices you’ve made.”

14 – “Who knows what you could accomplish in life if you made more of the right choices along the way?”

15 – “Some people choose to live by complaining. Other people choose to live.”

16 – “You cannot manage your life if you do not manage your self. You cannot manage your self if you do not manage your choices. Manage your choices, and you will manage your life.”

17 – “Learning what to choose, and how to choose, may be the most important education you will ever receive.”

18 – “The choices we make in the heat of emotion would be better if left for some other day.”

19 – “Listen to the quietest whispers of your mind. They are telling you the choices that will help you the most.”

20 – “Even the best of choices is only as strong as the choices that stand by its side.”

21 – “It is the big choices we make that set our direction. It is the smallest choices we make that get us to the destination.”

22 – “Each day that passes, your choices will come and go. They are like diamonds in a chest of jewels, each waiting to be discovered.”

23 – “Those who choose to succeed always do better than those who never choose at all.”

24 – “The highest levels are most certainly filled with those who chose to be there.”

25 – “If you have to take time to make a choice, take time. Then make the choice.”

26 – “The end result of your life here on earth will always be the sum total of the choices you made while you were here.”

Mottos for Success #2

“You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be.” ~ Robert Collier

“Laughter is a unique medicine that places your problems in perspective, relaxes your tense muscles, reassures those around you, and helps you to enjoy life even when you don’t have everything you want. A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” ~ David Brinkley

“I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.” ~ Michael Jordan

“A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.” ~ Walter Gagehot

“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.” ~ Bill Cosby

“The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.” ~ John Foster Dulles

“What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.” ~ Margaret Thatcher

“Keep these concepts in mind: You’ve failed many times, although you don’t remember. You fell down the first time you tried to walk. You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim. . . . Don’t worry about failure. My suggestion to each of you: Worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.” ~ Sherman Finesilver

“History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heart-breaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.” ~ B.C Forbes

“Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.” ~ William Feather

“Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.” ~ Tennessee Williams

“Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.” ~Sam Ewing”A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.” ~ Bob Dylan

“Somehow I can’t believe there are many heights that can’t be scaled by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. This special secret can be summarized in four C’s. They are: curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of these is confidence.” ~ Walt Disney

“I believe that the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master of that line.” ~ Andrew Carnegie

“Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.” ~ Dr. Joyce Brothers

Cute Quotes about Love and Friendship

“Don’t find love, let love find you. That’s why it’s called falling in love, because you don’t force yourself to fall, you just fall.” – Anonymous

“Love demands infinitely less than friendship.” – George Jean Nathan

“Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.” – Samuel Richardson

“Friendship is Something Special any person can have. You learn to love and communicate and you feel special yourself.” – Anonymous

“It would be impossible to love anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object.” – Paul Valéry

“Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand.” – Mother Teresa

“Love is neither true or false, love is love.” – Camilla Saunders

“Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever.” – Anonymous

“How can you be friends with someone when every time you see them you want them even more?!” – Anonymous

“The best thing about me is you.” – Shannon Crown

“Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love …” – Anonymous

“Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says For the woman I love and the second, For my best friend.” – Anonymous

“Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.” – Anonymous

“A best friend is like a four leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have.” – Anonymous

Cute Love Quotes

“Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship – never.” – Charles Caleb Colton

“Love is the only game never postponed due to darkness.” – Unknown

“We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn’t.” – Zsa Zsa Gabor

“We were given: Two hands to hold. To legs to walk. Two eyes to see. Two ears to listen. But why only one heart? Because the other was given to someone else. For us to find.” – Anonymous

“Distance between two hearts is not an obstacle… rather a beautiful reminder of just how strong true love can be.” – Anonymous

“Love builds bridges where there are none.” – R. H. Delaney

“When you are in Love you can’t fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss

“It is impossible to love and be wise.” – Francis Bacon

“Some of the greater things in life are unseen that is why you close your eyes when you kiss, cry, or dream…” – Anonymous

“A boy is a magical creature, you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can’t lock him out of your heart. You can get him out of your study, but you can’t get him out of your mind.” – Alan Beck

“If I has to choose between loving you, and breathing. I would use my last breath to say I love you.” – Anonymous

“Save a boyfriend for a rainy day – and another, in case it doesn’t rain.” – Mae West

“Love is like swallowing hot chocolate before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.” – Anonymous

“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.” – George Sand

“Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. ” – Voltaire

Cute Quotes to Make You Smile

– “Men like to barbecue. Men will cook if danger is involved.” – Rita Rudner

– “My wife was too beautiful for words – but not for arguments.” – John Barrymore

– “I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it’s somebody else’s secretary, fine.” – Barry Goldwater

– “A babysitter is a teenager acting like an adult while the adults are out acting like teenagers.” – Anonymous

– “I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.” – Roger Kahn

– “A man’s go to do what a man’s got to do. A woman must do what he can’t.” – Rhonda Hansome

– “The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.” – Lucille Ball

– “Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.” – Miguel de Unamuno

– “Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.” – Anonymous

– “All the things I really like are either immoral, illegal or fattening.” – Alexander Woollcott

– “Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas.” – Paula Poundstone

– “Nobody believes the official spokesman, but everybody trusts an unidentified source.” – Ron Nesen

– “Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don’t have on something they don’t need.” – Will Rogers

– “Don’t forget Mother’s Day… or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad’s Third Wife Day.” – Jay Leno

– “Age is just a number. It’s totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.” – Joan Collins

– “If we’re not supposed to eat animals, how come they’re made out of meat?” – Tom Snyder

– “Things hurt me now. My knees hurt, my back hurts. But your head still thinks it’s twenty-three.” – George Clooney

– “Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.” – Benjamin Franklin

– “Some people are like Slinkies – not really good for anything, but you still can’t help but smile when you see one tumble down the stairs.” – Anonymous

– “You better live every day like it’s your last day, because one day you’re going to be right.” – Ray Charles

– “I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They’ve experienced pain and bought jewelry.” – Rita Rudner