There's nothing you can do that can't be done, Nothing you can sing that can't be sung, Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game, It's easy..._x000D_ All you need is love.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that everything is possible with love and a willingness to learn.
In this quote, John Lennon conveys a powerful message about the limitless potential of human expression and action when driven by love. He emphasizes that all barriers can be broken, whether in creativity or communication, and that the key to achieving this is an open heart and a desire to learn. Love is presented as the fundamental force that enables us to navigate life’s challenges and explore new possibilities.
In practice
Using this quote to inspire a group of students to embrace creativity in their projects.
When I get older losing my hair many years from now. Will you still be sending me a Valentine. Birthday greetings, bottle of wine? If I'd been out till quarter to three would you lock the door? Will you still need me, will you still feed me, When I'm sixty-four?
The writing of the Beatles, or John and Paul's contribution to the Beatles in the late sixties - had a kind of depth to it, a more mature, more intellectual approach. We were different people, we were older. We knew each other in all kinds of different ways than when we wrote together as teenagers and in our older twenties.
I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book.
Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.
I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it's happening.
I've been baking bread and looking after the baby...Everyone else who has asked me that question over the last few years says. 'But what else have you been doing?' To which I say, 'Are you kidding?' Because bread and babies, as every housewife knows, is a full-time job. After I made the loaves [of bread,] I felt like I had conquered something. But as I watched the bread being eaten, I thought, Well, Jesus, don't I get a gold record or knighted or nothing?
I love thee and thou art so lovely and so wonderful and so beautiful and it does such things to me to be with thee that I feel as though I wanted to die when I am loving thee.
Love is my gift to the world. I fill myself with love, and I send that love out into the world.
I missed the sound of her shuffling her homework while I listened to music on her bed. I missed the cold of her feet against my legs when she climbed into bed. I missed the shape of her shadow where it fell across the page of my book. I missed the smell of her hair and the sound of her breath and my Rilke on her nightstand and her wet towel thrown over the back of her desk chair. It felt like I should be sated after having a whole day with her, but it just made me miss her more.
To love is human. To feel pain is human. Yet to still love despite the pain is pure angel.
I've learned that you know your husband still loves you when there are two brownies left and he takes the smaller one.
Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
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