Top 389 Quotes & Sayings by Yoko Ono - Page 6

Life keeps getting better. If anything, you start to carry a certain pride in having survived all those years.

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. First of all, having it outside your body is terribly dangerous. If I were a man I would have a fantastic castration complex to the point that I wouldn't be able to do a thing. Second, the inconsistency of it, like carrying a chance time alarm or something. If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself.

To have world peace, we all have to have a healthy understanding of what is necessary to bring World Peace. It's not something that will be dropped on our laps. We have to work for it. Until we get World Peace, I think my strongest passion stays in the effort to get it.

All women are feminists. Being a feminist is allowing woman to be natural, for what she is, whatever it is. All of us can be natural and we're all feminists in that sense.

I think people place limitations on each other and on ourselves. There is a great fear of expressing ourselves, of making creativity happen.

We don't read people's wishes. The wishes are suppose to be direct communication to the Universe. Your interception will weaken the power of the wish.

Be kind to yourself this evening. Buy something for yourself. Treat yourself to a meal. Look in the mirror and give yourself a smile

I'm a politician. Politics is just a convenience for our life and we just have to create a beautiful world together that would be very convenient for us and just enjoyable.

I think something that's very important for us to communicate is usually very simple. Like breathing: Breathing is very simple. You don't do a dissonant 9th harmony or something in breathing. You just breathe, you know. I think that's how it is with very important messages.

I don't work for a long time on anything. I don't have too much time in life.

I saw sorrow turning into clarity.

Think of the Earth as a turning point in eternity. Think of the Earth as a meeting point in infinity.

You should do something that will make your heart dance once a day. If you can't do that because you're too depressed, then do something that will make somebody else's heart dance.

I don't particularly consider myself just an artist. I'm a woman - I'm a human being.

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.

Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.

The boats outside the window were always still I wondered if one of them would take me to the ocean.

I often wish my mother had died so that at least I could get some people's sympathy. But there she was, a perfectly beautiful mother.

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?

The only way you can better John is by copying him exactly.

When I was 4 years old my mother put me into an early music education school. That's where they taught you perfect pitch and harmony and how to write music and all that. At that time, one of the homeworks was to listen to all the sounds and the noise of a day and transfer that into musical notes.

Luckily we never injected because both of us were totally scared about needles. So that probably saved us. And the other thing that saved us was our connection was not very good.

Real success is doing things right every day by not forgetting to express love to your friends.

I never thought, "I'm going to be an artist". When I actually began to become successful in the art world I made it a point to say, 'I am a dilettante, I am not a professional artist", which is true.

I never went to art school and I never thought of going to an art school. It was just a way of manifesting these ideas I had. Ideas came to me that I needed to express.

I'm not giving any guidance, OK. I mean, you know, mothers are not supposed to give guidance, right? Anyway, so he's [Sean] doing his own thing.

If you have a slave around the house how can you expect to make a revolution outside it? The problem for women is that if we try to be free, then we naturally become lonely, because so many women are willing to become slaves, and men usually prefer that.

I want to incite people to loosen their oppression by giving them something to work with, to build on. They shouldn't be frightened of creating themselves - that's why I make things very open, with things for people to do.

Everything has complexity. Everything has simplicity. You just grab it.

Beatles was 20th-century folksong in the framework of capitalism; they couldn't do anything different if they wanted to communicate within that framework.

I trust in my inspiration, really, and that's difficult because sometimes you would rather be technical. And once you empty your mind, empty your brain, it's really incredible. I'm very caring about things that dash into my brain, and I make sure I don't just clog it.

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

When people get cynical about love, they should look at us [Yoko and John Lennon] and see it is possible

I'm not the kind of woman who would love to make soup or knit sweaters. I never cherished that so much.

The amazing thing is that we could live in the world together peacefully, feed the world, shelter the world. We have that capability both spiritually and technologically.

The universe is a space bigger than all of us we are part of.

If you're criticized then you can use it as an experience. Compliments, you can't use.

Tell the Earth how much you care, how beautiful she is, and how much you love her. Ask for her forgiveness for having been so careless.

We don't have a particular organization, but we all want to make a world in which justice is given to each one of us.

Love is what I give to the one I love.

Someday I'll be remembered for The phone calls I never made Letters I never mailed And the stories I never finished telling anyone.

We're all water from different rivers, That's why it's so easy to meet, We're all water in this vast, vast ocean, Someday we'll evaporate together.

You're filled with so much life. Is there any reason why all of us are not full of life?

Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in secrecy belongs to all of us. Julian Assange took a courageous step by rightfully returning what belongs to the public domain. For that reason, I believe we need to stand behind him.

When you go through a negative situation, don’t think about it. Make it positive.

Keep going until your efforts start to make things better in your hometown.

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.

What a beautiful future it will be! Don't worry about life being boring. It will never be.

Some people get medals and awards and all that, and maybe not intentionally - maybe the world is making them do it - but they sort of just follow what they were doing. Repeat or follow what they were doing all their lives, in their style of music or whatever. In my case, I always try to start from scratch. It's very nerve-wracking actually, but it's interesting.

If I hear dance music, my body starts to move. Whatever the dance music is, I can't help it. With all that, I still felt, well, rock is a little higher art, but it wasn't. Right now, because I have so much experience with dance charts, I started to realize that it's incredible art. This is going to be known one day as high art.

The people have got to trust in themselves.

If your judgement is clouded, you must be carrying too many things which are being a burden to you.

Perhaps one feels more pain when parents are there. It's like when you're hungry, you know, it's worse to get a symbol of a cheeseburger than no cheeseburger at all. It doesn't do you any good, you know.

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

Dance music makes us dance. Let us get off our couch and spin around!

I realized that an artist seeking to tell the truth in her art takes great courage. I recognize the courage required to bring children together from Israeli and Palestinian communities to find commonality in music as a very powerful and effective beginning towards Peace.

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.

I never wanted to be a professional artist; I think that's limiting.

In a way the new music showed things could be transformed by new channels of communication.

Give death announcements each time you move instead of giving announcements of the change of address. Send the same when you die.