Great Throughts Treasury

"Give peace a chance."

"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination."

"Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans."

"All you need is 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. "

"Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. "

"God is a concept by which we measure our pain. "

"You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are! "

"The more I see the less I know for sure. "

"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"

"Living is easy with eyes closed."

"Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears."

"You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate. "

"Nothing is real."

"One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside."

"I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together."

"Make your own dream. "

"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 there's no heaven, it's easy if you try,no hell below us, above us only sky,imagine all the people, living for today. Imagine there's no countries,it isn't hard to do, nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too,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. Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can, no need for greed or hunger, a brotherhood of man, imagine all the people, sharing all the world. 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 live as one. "

"Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem. "