John Lennon

I’d never met a woman I considered as intelligent as me. That sounds bigheaded, but every woman I met was either a dolly-chick, or a sort of screwed-up intellectual chick. And of course, in the field I was in, I didn’t meet many intellectual people anyway. I always had this dream of meeting an artist, an artist girl who would be like me. And I thought it was a myth, but then I met Yoko and that was it.

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? Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

We’re more popular than Jesus Christ now. I don’t know which will go first; rock and 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.

We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first, rock ‘n’ roll or Christianity.

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.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Choose happiness, not success, as your life’s goal. If you become successful but aren’t happy, then what is the point?

Happiness cannot be travel to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won’t have to haunt for happiness

Relinquishing the delusional hope that we can or must be flawless allows us to seek happiness in the place it can be found: Our real, messy, imperfect experience

Money itself won’t bring happiness, but it sure makes paying the bills easier.

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.