Yoko Ono quotes:

Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.

Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.

I did not break up the Beatles. You can't have it both ways. If you're going to blame me for breaking the Beatles up, you should be thankful that I made them into myth rather than a crumbling group.

Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would never claim to have the worst situation. There are many widows, and many people dying of AIDS, many people killed in Lebanon, people starving all over the planet. So we have to count our lucky stars.

When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.

There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.

My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to the whole world with his words and music.

To me, the concept of distance is not important. Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.

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

My beauty secret is... nothing! I don't drink too much water. I don't eat very well. Sometimes I cheat and grab some chocolate. The best thing is to eat what you want, but not very much.

The computer is my favourite invention. I feel lucky to be part of the global village. I don't mean to brag, but I'm so fast with technology. People think it all seems too much, but we'll get used to it. I'm sure it all seemed too much when we were learning to walk.

I think that there is a sort of spiritual power that is translating into our bodies as we perform. Performers give, and giving is so important. It can heal. That is my experience, anyway.

When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.

Nothing is written in stone. So don't prepare yourself for a long and lucrative career. You might die tomorrow. Your gold holdings might become dust. Just make the music you want to make now and enjoy it.

I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.

People say that this new generation is so used to the Internet that their heads are already different. They can't read a book from beginning to end. That is not a tragedy. The book changes form.

I think there is a big difference between the music business and music. And my relationship is to music, not music business. I think the business will keep changing, but music won't. Music will be there.

Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.

Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.

Many of my songs were dance orientated from way back. That's because I love dance! When I hear a dance number, just hearing the first eight bars, it immediately makes my bod start moving and dancing.

When I'm putting some communication out on Twitter or Facebook or Instagram, I think that it's helping me, my brain, you know, because it's always somehow stimulated by people who are sending things to me. And it works both ways. It's great. My brain is very happy about it.

I always believed that my work should be unfinished in the sense that I encourage people to add their creativity to it, either conceptually or physically. Back in the 1960s, I was calling for 'Unfinished Music,' number one, and number two, with my artwork - I was taking unfinished work into the gallery. And that's how I was looking at it.

To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.

The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up.

If you have too many quotes from other people in your head, you can't create. You have to keep your head empty. That's why I am constantly enjoying the sky, the park, the walk.

Many incredible artists die before they were famous.

I travel a lot, so when I arrive in a city, I like to go to good local bookshops and make a selection based on how I'm feeling and what I'm thinking. The book I pick usually seems to have a definite karmic connection!

Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.

You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.

Losing my daughter was a very serious pain. There was always some empty space in my heart.

Women are put in a position of feeling embarrassed about their bodies. It's so ridiculous, but also astounding - we have to always be apologetic about having created the human race.

Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions.

This society is driven by neurotic speed and force accelerated by greed and frustration of not being able to live up to the image of men and woman we have created for ourselves; the image has nothing to do with the reality of people.

I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'

DJs are in incredible competition, musically. And they are the most musically creative and sensitive people in all the music charts. I am amazed how they are.

I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.

We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.

We're growing up together, the human race. And we've discovered a lot of things that we didn't know. We're finding our way. Instead of thinking about doomsday all the time, think about how beautiful the world is. We're all together, and together we're getting wiser.

I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.

Music is like my security blanket.

One day, the dance charts will be the biggest chart in the music world. Because we all need to dance. This planet will be a fun planet when the judges in court will end the day with a dance!

I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter.

Healing yourself is connected with healing others.

Art is my life and my life is art.

Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not great art for you.

John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.

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

If your life changes, we can change the world, too.

Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that you do.

You change the world by being yourself.

Marriage is a difficult project. When seven years have passed and all your body's cells have been replaced, you're meant to experience that seven-year itch.

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

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

After my husband John Lennon passed away, I tried to smile for my health.

When you go through a negative situation, don't think about it. Make it positive.

I trust myself. You need that to survive.

People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop.

In the Second World War, I was a little girl. I was evacuated in my country.

Dancing is a very healthy thing to do for our body.

Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.

When I speak out against the guns or against the big corporations, some of my friends say, 'Oh Yoko, be careful. These people have all the power.' But, you know, most people don't speak out because they are frightened.

Every drop in the ocean counts.

When you go to war, both sides lose totally.

A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I've got through it all without a rule book, taking it one day at a time.

You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.

You can be very wild and still be very wise.

When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: 'Just breathe.'

Many people do remember their births, but they deny it.

Mothers are not supposed to give guidance.

The universe, when you leave it alone, is going to be beautiful.

I never want projects to be finished; I have always believed in unfinished work. I got that from Schubert, you know, the 'Unfinished Symphony.'

People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?

Chemically speaking or biologically, we research things, but we don't know half of them. We only know our half of it - symbolically - and we don't know ourselves more than half.

Sometimes the father feels pushed out because of the connection between the mother and the child.

I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.

I'm just being normal. A normal woman. Well, I don't know what a normal woman is, but I'm a woman and I'm Yoko and I've never changed that.

Even my mother told me: 'You are a handsome woman, but you're not pretty. Pretty girls don't have those big bones.'

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

Every moment in our lives is a miracle we should enjoy instead of ignoring.

My first husband met me as a career woman, and the second did, too. I was lucky.

People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit pretentious. But energy is not.

I don't have a goal. I don't limit myself to a goal.

The sky is always there for me, while my life has been going through many, many changes. When I look up the sky, it gives me a nice feeling, like looking at an old friend.

We live too long for one marriage.

Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.

The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.

I feel that my work is not in vain, that it does have a place in society, even though it may not be considered that it has a place in society - it doesn't matter.

My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.

No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.

What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.

Most people like to hear sounds they are used to.

People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.

Life with another person is always difficult.

My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.

We artists have the dignity to tell the truth to the people, unlike politicians.

Reality can be elastic, and I want to see how elastic it can be, you know?

All my life, I have been in love with the sky. Even when everything was falling apart around me, the sky was always there for me.

The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.

At least I had that, one guy understood me.

I really feel that artists or musicians are controversial people. Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. If people are not doing that, they're not artists - they're artisans.

But only art and music have the power to bring peace.

Be kind to yourself this evening. Buy something for yourself. Treat yourself to a meal. Look in the mirror and give yourself a smile

I'm a politician. Politics is just a convenience for our life and we just have to create a beautiful world together that would be very convenient for us and just enjoyable.

Not being appreciated for 40 years or something ... It feels like I was accused of something that I didn't do, which was breaking up the Beatles. That was like being somebody who is in prison without having done anything wrong.

Cosmetics is a boon to every woman, but a girl's best beauty aid is still a near-sighted man.

Indie music is 'it' now. It's kind of a revolution to the music: 1980s, 1990s music was getting very sanitized; they were complying with the music industry. Music was getting more and more dead in a way. Now, because of the social climate that's very severe, the artists are compelled to start being real. It's really great that indie music is now.

Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear and we all just do our best.

I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him.

We don't read people's wishes. The wishes are suppose to be direct communication to the Universe. Your interception will weaken the power of the wish.

Don't ever give up on life. Life can be so beautiful, especially after you've spent a lot of time with it.

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.

The opposite of love is fear, not hate.

When you are feeling bad, do one thing a day to make your heart dance. It could be a simple thing like looking up at the sky.

I just go with the flow, so any style can be in my music - that makes it exciting.

Fracking kills, and it doesn't just kill us. It kills the land, nature and, eventually, the whole world.

Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.

The nice thing about the gallery shows is that without having to pay any money you can just go and see it.