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"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life."
"Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears."
"There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life."
"Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones"
"Strawberry fields forever"
"Strawberry Fields is anywhere you want to go"
"Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end."
"When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps."
"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?"
"Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted."
"We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight."
"You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!"
"It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it matters only that you love"
"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."
"Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear."
"A mistake is only an error, it becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it"
"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."
"We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it."
"If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'."
"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it."