John Lennon Quotes

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

The lesson that people can't give me what they don't have, and if there's anything I took from it, it was: okay, I don't really expect anyone to hand me anything. There's going to be me and the world.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

You have to live through things. You can't have other people telling you to do that and do this. It's important to live through things.

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

Our aim is to help the clients help themselves, not to tell them what to think.

I don't think anyone has made me except myself. I think I have done it on my own.

In a very slow way, I found my path. Even now, I think, 'If I can't do it my way, I'd rather not do it.'

You come to realize that only one person can tell you what's expected of you, and that's you.

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.

You have to find it. No one else can find it for you.

I don't think anybody can be told how to act. I think you can give advice. But you have to find your own way through it.

Claiming your life for yourself feels like a huge deal until you do it.

I'm of the school of thought where if you can't sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

It's my life, it's up to me what I want to do with it. And I'm realizing that.

When I turned 30, I had this epiphany that my life is my own and my choices are my own.

Independence was something I really wanted from a young age and I think it really helped me make sense of myself, more so than perhaps say going to university would have done.

I have lived life enough to know that I define myself.

You are your own devil, you are your own God, You fashioned the paths that your footsteps have trod, And no one can save you from error or sin, Until you shall hark to the Spirit within.

You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.

Your legacy is being written by yourself. Make the right decisions.

You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.