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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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My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono
Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono
I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
-Bono
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I actually enjoy being out of my depth - I thrive on it.
- 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
The right to be irresponsible is a right I hold dear.
- Bono
Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- Bono
Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono
The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
This is our moment, this is our time.
- Bono
I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono
My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
- Bono
To carry each other is not a burden at all
but a kind of privilege.
- Bono
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- 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
Stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing -
because it's already blessed.
- 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
Grace defies reason and logic.
- 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
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
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this,
but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- 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
Music can change the world because it can change people.
- 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
I'm not religious at all,
but I believe in God very strongly.
- Bono
I feel exuberant. I don't pretend.
- Bono
Religion can be the enemy of God.
- 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
I love this work I do.
It's a privilege to serve the poor.
- Bono
I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- Bono
The Spirit is described in the Holy Scriptures
as much more anarchic than any established religion credits.
- Bono
Books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
There are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- Bono
Don't lie down. Get up.
- Bono
Feelings are much stronger than thoughts.
We are all led by instinct,
and our intellect catches up later.
- Bono
The less you know, the more you believe.
- Bono
I don't believe in wishful thinking.
- Bono
Religion often gets in the way of God.
- 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
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
U2 is an original species...
there are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- Bono
It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth
are rotting when I listen to the radio.
- Bono
I don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God.
It's religion I'm doubting.
- 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
We can, if we get up off our ass, change the world.
- 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'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
Don't die with your music still inside you.
Listen to your intuitive inner voice
and find what passion stirs your soul.
- Wayne Dyer
Relax. 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
I don't think of all the misery
but of the beauty that still remains.
- Anne Frank
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation
and go to the grave with the song still in them.
- Henry David Thoreau
Don't part with your illusions.
When they are gone you may still exist,
but you have ceased to live.
- Mark Twain
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
Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
In spite of everything, I still believe
that people are really good at heart.
I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation
consisting of confusion, misery and death.
- Anne Frank
You know that place between sleeping and awake,
that place where you can still remember dreaming?
That's where I'll always think of you.
- James M. Barrie
I am only one, but still I am one.
I cannot do everything, but still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
- Helen Keller
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
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