I often wish my mother had ...

I often wish my mother had died so that at least I could get some people\'s sympathy. But there she was, a perfectly beautiful mother.
I often wish my mother had died so that at least I could get some people's sympathy. But there she was, a perfectly beautiful mother.
 Yoko Ono

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
 George S. Patton
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
 Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
 Harriet Beecher Stowe

Quotes from the same author

Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.
 Yoko Ono
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.
 Yoko Ono
I wonder why men get serious at all. They have this delicate, long thing hanging outside their bodies which goes up and down by its own will. If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself.
 Yoko Ono
The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.
 Yoko Ono
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.
 Yoko Ono