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The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- 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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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
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
Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono
This is our moment, this is our time.
- Bono
We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- Bono
The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
To carry each other is not a burden at all
but a kind of privilege.
- Bono
My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
- 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
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
Books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
I'm not religious at all,
but I believe in God very strongly.
- Bono
Music can change the world because it can change people.
- 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
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
Religion can be the enemy of God.
- Bono
Religion often gets in the way of God.
- Bono
I love this work I do.
It's a privilege to serve the poor.
- Bono
Don't lie down. Get up.
- 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
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
There are righteous people working
in a whole rainbow of belief systems -
from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters
to charismatic Catholics.
- 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
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
I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- 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
We can, if we get up off our ass, change the world.
- 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
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
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 don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God.
It's religion I'm doubting.
- 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
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
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let there be peace on earth.
And let it begin with me.
- Jill Jackson Miller
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy
Today is a day to honor other cultures.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of your own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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