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We thought that we had the answers,
by Bono

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

Related topics: Wisdom Perspective

Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono

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

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

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

 

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

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

Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono

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

I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- 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

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

I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- 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

The more you know the less you feel.
- 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

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

The more you see the less you know.
- 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'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

I don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God.
It's religion I'm doubting.
- Bono

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

I don't believe in wishful thinking.
- 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

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 feel exuberant. I don't pretend.
- Bono

Religion often gets in the way of God.
- Bono

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

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

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

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

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

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

Don't lie down. Get up.
- 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 less you know, the more you believe.
- Bono

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

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

We can, if we get up off our ass, change the world.
- 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

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

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung

Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau

You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous

"I wonder what Piglet is doing," thought Pooh.
"I wish I were there to be doing it, too."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that
it is better for hard words to be on paper
than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
- Anne Frank

You will always have habits -
things you do regularly and without conscious thought -
but you do have the ability to CHOOSE your habits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The WORK
1.Is it true?
2.Can you absolutely know that it's true?
3.How do you react when you think that thought?
4.Who would you be without the thought?
- Byron Katie

Most of us are prisoners of habit,
and don't even notice that we do the same things,
think the same things, want the same things each day -
mostly without conscious thought.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

The greatest weapon against stress
is our ability to choose one thought over another.
- William James

The revelation of thought takes men
out of servitude into freedom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I won't miss you.
I will miss who I thought you were.
- Anonymous


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