George Harrison Quotes - Page 3

Sunrise doesn't last all morning, a cloudburst doesn't last all day, seems my love is up and has left you with no warning. It's not always going to be this grey. All things must pass, all things must pass away.

For the forest to be green, each tree must be green.

The Beatles saved the world from boredom.

I remember thinking I just want more. This isn't it. Fame is not the goal. Money is not the goal. To be able to know how to get peace of mind, how to be happy, is something you don't just stumble across. You've got to search for it.

Music is sound, vibrations, whereas paintings are vibrations of whatever you pick up. It's not actually an energy vibration you get from a groovy painting, but music and sound seem to travel along vibrations, you know the whole thing with mantras is to repeat and repeat those sounds... it's vibrations in everything like prayers and hymns.

As long as you hate, there will be people to hate.

What's often in your heart is the hardest to reach.

Give me love, give me peace on earth, give me light, give me life

We were the Spice Boys.

And the time will come when you see, we’re all one, and life flows on within you and without you.

Didn't want to be a star, wanted just to play guitar in this cockamamie business.

The Beatles exist apart from my Self. I am not really Beatle George. Beatle George is like a suit or shirt that I once wore on occasion and until the end of my life people may see that shirt and mistake it for me.

No matter how good you are, you still need grace to get out of the material world. You can be a yogi or a monk or a nun, but without God's grace you still can't make it.

People always say I'm the Beatle who changed the most, but really that's what I see life is about... you have to change.

It's by your own actions you're able to get more in a mess or out of one. It's your own actions that relieve or bind you.

I used to think that having many material things would increase one's stock of happiness. I found that to be completely untrue. The trappings don't make the man at all.

Death is just where your suit falls off and now you're in your other suit. You can't see it on this level, but it's all right. Don't worry.

The "intellectuals" will always have problems, because they always need to "know." They're often the most spiritually bankrupt people, because they never let go; they don't understand the meaning of "to transcend" the intellect.

If there is a God, I want to see him. I don't want to just hear some holy roller shouting about him.

Without going out of my door, I can know all things on earth. Without looking out of my window I could know the ways of heaven. The farther one travels, The less one knows, the less one really knows.

People are all ignorant, they fear new things, they fear knowledge somehow, I don't know why. Everything that I ever learned was always so great. I never thought so at the time, it was just that little bit more in your mind an expansion of consciousness or awareness.

What do you think of the criticism that you're not very good?

You've got to be humble really to be yourself or to get a chance to be yourself.

Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you.

No matter how much money you've got, it doesn't necessarily make you happy. You have to find your happiness with the problems you have, not worry too much about them, and chant Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare.