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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
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
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
-Bono
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono
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
We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- Bono
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
This is our moment, this is our time.
- Bono
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
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
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
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
- Bono
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- 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
To carry each other is not a burden at all
but a kind of privilege.
- Bono
Grace defies reason and logic.
- 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
I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- 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
Religion can be the enemy of God.
- Bono
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
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
I feel exuberant. I don't pretend.
- Bono
I'm not religious at all,
but I believe in God very strongly.
- Bono
I don't believe in wishful thinking.
- 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
The Spirit is described in the Holy Scriptures
as much more anarchic than any established religion credits.
- Bono
I love this work I do.
It's a privilege to serve the poor.
- 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 often gets in the way of God.
- 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
Music can change the world because it can change people.
- 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
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
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
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
U2 is an original species...
there are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- Bono
I don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God.
It's religion I'm doubting.
- Bono
It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth
are rotting when I listen to the radio.
- 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'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
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
Do you feel stuck?
Whether in a project, a job, a relationship,
or some other situation,
there is a time for perseverance,
and a time for letting go and moving on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson
"How do you spell 'love'?" asked Piglet.
"You don't spell it...you feel it." answered Pooh.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
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