"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."

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Source : "Yoko Ono on Lennon, Love, Feminism, and Japan". Interview with Deenah Vollmer, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 22, 2011.

Yoko Ono

#People Quotes #Understanding Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“You crush me with the things you do, I do for anything too...each moment the more I love you.”
“You couldn't pay me enough to be a law enforcement officer. Their job is a tough job. You have to solve people's problems, you have to baby-sit people, you have to always be doing this cat-and-mouse game with the bad guys. My respect for them is immense.”
“The queen was settling on the edge of the bed, ungainly with hesitation and at the same time exquisite in her grace, like a heron landing in a treetop.”
“I mean, I - it's so funny, I am, you know, I am, you know, a working woman out in the world, but I still live with my parents half the time. I've been sort of taking this very long, stuttering period of moving out.”
“Having my foundation be from two positive black role models in my life, my mom and my dad, two strong-minded intelligent individuals who clearly have made a great deal of great decisions in their lives and put me in a position, via educational institutions, to be around other intelligent people and to have a strong moral foundation, from which I try to never stray far. It all spurred me to carve out my own little niche as a human being.”
“Win with your heart, not your head - win on emotion, not in logic; have a passion about what you do; nobody wants a boss, everybody wants a coach.”
“We must defend freedom of expression and if I had to chose, I prefer the excess of caricature over the excess of censure.”
“Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.”

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