Yoko Ono Quotes - Page 2

Healing yourself is connected with healing others.

Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited. I believe in people so much that if the whole of civilization is burned so we don't have any memory of it, even then people will start to build their own art. It is a necessity -- a function. We don't need history.

If everybody thinks of something, then it will happen. Your mind is part of the universe. It is connected, you can use its energy.

Kill all the men you have slept with. Put the bones in a box and send it into the sea with flowers.

I trust myself. You need that to survive.

You can be very wild and still be very wise

I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun.

It's always good to do something that is not a repeat. I just don't believe in repeating.

The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.

Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.

I have the outsider's vision, which is creating wisdom I can share with the world. The fact that I am misunderstood has always given me an added impetus to work on communication to bridge the gap.

Every drop in the ocean counts.

Art is a way of survival.

When you burn the chair, you suddenly realize that the chair in your mind did not burn or disappear

When you say 'I love you', you are not just saying it to that person. You are saying 'I love you' to yourself, the planet & The Universe.

Most people think that I am too optimistic, but my optimism is based on the thought that negative thinking is a luxury that we can't afford.

I'm not going to doubt my life.

Anger is an emotion that is very energetic. It is an ideal emotion to turn it around to make it work as a positive force.

It's difficult to explain love. You want to explain water? You need a book for it. There are many different ways to explain what water is. Love is big, it's very big. I know that I have tons of it. But maybe we don't want to open up so much, and we think, maybe we don't have so much, but yes, you know that you have tons of love. We all do. Through that love we can connect, we can heal each other, we can make people, all of us, happy, joyful, and make a better world.

Society was built on male power, and women's power was... ignored is the best word to describe it I suppose, we have been running society on one power, half a power really. And that's so terrible. The world needs women's power too.

We get shy about saying things like I love you. Life is so short. It's crazy, that we hesitate to express our true thoughts to each other.

Confusion has become a state of mind, more of less; we're trained to be confused. Quite simply, the people in power are keeping us down, keeping us docile and keeping us consuming with this confusion. It's a cultural confusion and it is deliberate.

Art is an effort to make you walk a half an inch above ground.

There are things you can never take, no matter how strong you are.

Power is power. It's energy. And if you get big, big energy, you can use that in a good way.