Above all else, my inspiration is friendship. ...
by Bono

Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono

I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
-Bono

To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono

My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono

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I actually enjoy being out of my depth - I thrive on it.
- Bono

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono

Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono

Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono

The right to be irresponsible is a right I hold dear.
- 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

It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
- Bono

We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- Bono

This is our moment, this is our time.
- Bono

I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono

You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)

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

To carry each other is not a burden at all
but a kind of privilege.
- Bono

Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono

The more you see the less you know.
- Bono

I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- 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

Grace defies reason and logic.
- Bono

I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono

With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono

Stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing -
because it's already blessed.
- Bono

I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono

The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono

The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono

I'm not religious at all,
but I believe in God very strongly.
- 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

You have to open yourself up,
you have to be raw;
and you have to reveal yourself,
and sometimes it's very difficult.
- 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

The Spirit is described in the Holy Scriptures
as much more anarchic than any established religion credits.
- Bono

There are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- 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 doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God.
It's religion I'm doubting.
- Bono

Don't lie down. Get up.
- Bono

Music can change the world because it can change people.
- Bono

Feelings are much stronger than thoughts.
We are all led by instinct,
and our intellect catches up later.
- Bono

I love this work I do.
It's a privilege to serve the poor.
- Bono

I don't believe in wishful thinking.
- Bono

Religion often gets in the way of God.
- Bono

I feel exuberant. I don't pretend.
- Bono

It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth
are rotting when I listen to the radio.
- Bono

Religion can be the enemy of God.
- 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

The less you know, the more you believe.
- Bono

I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- 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

U2 is an original species...
there are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- 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

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 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

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau

Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;
revenging one make you but even with him;
forgiving it sets you above him.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]

True love means putting the other person before yourself,
and honoring the relationship above all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Above all, don't lie to yourself.
The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie
comes to a point that he cannot
distinguish the truth within him, or around him,
and so loses all respect for himself and for others.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

To love. To be loved.
To never forget your own insignificance.
To never get used to the unspeakable violence
and the vulgar disparity of life around you.
To seek joy in the saddest places.
To pursue beauty to its lair.
To never simplify what is complicated
or complicate what is simple.
To respect strength, never power.
Above all, to watch. To try to understand.
To never look away. And never, never, to forget.
- Arundhati Roy

Life is a journey. It is not a race to test
who can finish first or who can end up with the most loot.
Rather, life is best enjoyed as a meander -
watching the view to left and right - above and below -
as the days slowly move past in dress review.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare

This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare

May you soar on eagle wings, high above the madness of the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Like an Eagle, May You Always Soar
High Above the Troubles of the World.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Do not be too moral.
You may cheat yourself out of much life.
So aim above morality.
Be not simply good;
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau

I soar on eagle wings,
high above the madness of the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Aim above morality.
Be not simply good,
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau

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Above all else, my inspiration is friendship. ...by Bono

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Above all else, my inspiration is friendship. ...
by Bono