The 15 Best Quotes From John Denver

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If you’re a huge fan of music, you would, of course, know the name of John Denver and his iconic songs. But even if you didn’t know anything about his compositions, songs such as “Take Me Home, Country Roads” and “Thank God I’m A Country Boy,” might ring a bell to you, with hundreds of radio stations still reliving the legacy that the country singer gave for the people to listen to. Denver left the world too soon, at the young age of 52 from the terrible airplane crash, but inside his career, he never forgot to give us some insightful words for us to take note of. Let’s take a look at some of John Denver’s best quotes below.

 

  1. “Death is not an ending, but a symbol of movement along the path upon which we are all traveling. As it may be painful to lose contact with the physical aspect of one, we love, the Spirit can never be lost. We have been and always will be a part of each other.”
  2. “Peace is a conscious choice.”
  3. “The best thing you have to offer the world is yourself. You don’t have to copy anyone else. If you do, you’re second best. To achieve success is to be first, and that’s being yourself.”
  4. “I would so much like young people to have a sense of the gift that they are. Not many of them feel like that.”
  5. “We don’t teach kids how to feel, we don’t give them the words to go by.”
  6. “My purpose in performing is to communicate the joy I experience in living.”
  7. “There are so many things we are afraid of, thinking that if we confront them, they will kill us. Most of it goes back to your infancy.”
  8. “There has never been a time on Earth like we see today. What we need are more ways to experience our interconnectedness—it is a precursor to deep love. So in this quickening light, with the dawn of each new day, let us look for love. Let us no longer struggle. Let us ever become who we most want to be. As we begin to be who we truly are, the world will be a better place.”
  9. “The best thing you have to offer the world is yourself. You don’t have to copy anyone else. If you do, you’re second best. To achieve success is to be first, and that’s being yourself.”
  10. “I’ve always liked to think that we put ourselves in the circumstances in life that will support us moving through to wherever it is our spirit is going.”
  11. “Commit yourself to do whatever it is you can contribute in order to create a healthy and sustainable future—the world needs you desperately. Find that in yourself and make a commitment—that is what will change the world.”
  12. “I believe that we are here for each other, not against each other. Everything comes from an understanding that you are a gift in my life—whoever you are, whatever our differences.”
  13. “Things go up and down. If you can survive the down, it will come back.”
  14. “I don’t want to just entertain people. I want to touch them.”
  15. “The future of life on Earth depends on our ability to see the sacred where others see only the common.”