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I am still amazed at how big, how enormous
a love and mystery God is -
and how small are the minds
that attempt to corral
this life force into rules and taboos,
cults and sects.
- Bono
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I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono
We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- Bono
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
This is our moment, this is our time.
- Bono
I actually enjoy being out of my depth - I thrive on it.
- Bono
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono
Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono
I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono
The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
-Bono
Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono
The right to be irresponsible is a right I hold dear.
- Bono
To carry each other is not a burden at all
but a kind of privilege.
- Bono
Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
Grace defies reason and logic.
- Bono
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
- Bono
God's Spirit moves through us and the world
at a pace that can never be constricted
by any one religious paradigm.
I love that.
- Bono
Stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing -
because it's already blessed.
- Bono
You hold onto religion, you know,
rules, regulations, traditions.
I think what God is interested in
is people's hearts, and that's hard enough.
- Bono
My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono
Love interrupts, if you like,
the consequences of your actions,
which in my case is very good news indeed,
because I've done a lot of stupid stuff.
- Bono
You have to open yourself up,
you have to be raw;
and you have to reveal yourself,
and sometimes it's very difficult.
- Bono
Religion can be the enemy of God.
- Bono
The less you know, the more you believe.
- Bono
There are righteous people working
in a whole rainbow of belief systems -
from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters
to charismatic Catholics.
- Bono
Music can change the world because it can change people.
- Bono
Everywhere I look, I see the evidence of a creator.
But I don't see it as religion,
which has cut Irish people in two.
I don't see Jesus Christ as being
in any part of a religion.
Religion to me is almost like when God leaves -
and people devise a set of rules to fill the space.
- Bono
I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- Bono
I don't believe in wishful thinking.
- Bono
Religion often gets in the way of God.
- Bono
I'm not religious at all,
but I believe in God very strongly.
- Bono
There are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- Bono
The Spirit is described in the Holy Scriptures
as much more anarchic than any established religion credits.
- Bono
I feel exuberant. I don't pretend.
- Bono
I love this work I do.
It's a privilege to serve the poor.
- Bono
It's hard to believe, hard to be a believer,
when you see the way the things are in the world.
But I am a believer!
- Bono
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this,
but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
Books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
Don't lie down. Get up.
- Bono
As a rock star, I have two instincts,
I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- Bono
Feelings are much stronger than thoughts.
We are all led by instinct,
and our intellect catches up later.
- Bono
Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd.
In the past, U2 was trying to duck that.
Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.
- Bono
It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth
are rotting when I listen to the radio.
- Bono
U2 is an original species...
there are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- Bono
I come from Ireland and I've seen the damage of religious warfare.
I am a believer. I don't wear the badge on the outside
but it is on the inside.
- Bono
People should be angry about a lot of things
and the peace-and-love thing
doesn't sit comfortably with me at all.
- Bono
We can, if we get up off our ass, change the world.
- Bono
I don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God.
It's religion I'm doubting.
- Bono
I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
Now at what point does an unpopular conviction
interfere with your own human rights?
Forced female circumcision, for instance.
The Catholic Church's stance on contraception.
The list goes on. You know, God has some really weird kids,
and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.
- Bono
In spite of unseasonable wind, snow
and unexpected weather of all sorts -
a gardener still plants.
And tends what they have planted ...
believing that Spring will come.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu
I don't think of all the misery
but of the beauty that still remains.
- Anne Frank
There is more value in a very good painting
that is completed and on display,
than in an excellent painting
that is still in the artist's studio,
or perhaps still in his mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't die with your music still inside you.
Listen to your intuitive inner voice
and find what passion stirs your soul.
- Wayne Dyer
Faith is the bird that feels the light
and sings when the dawn is still dark.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation
and go to the grave with the song still in them.
- Henry David Thoreau
Don't die with your music still inside you.
- Wayne Dyer
The good news is that you aren't
as important as you thought you were.
Relax. The weight of the world
is not on your shoulders.
Take a day off.
Go for a long silent walk in the woods.
The world will still be there tomorrow -
as good and as bad as ever.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The sage does not hoard.
The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself,
Having bestowed all he has on others, he has yet more;
having given all he has to others, he is richer still.
- Lao Tzu
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
Be not afraid of growing slowly,
be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb
Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations.
For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
- Henry David Thoreau
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