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The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono
I actually enjoy being out of my depth - I thrive on it.
- Bono
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono
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
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- 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
Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- 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
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
We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- Bono
The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
Grace defies reason and logic.
- Bono
Stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing -
because it's already blessed.
- Bono
I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono
The more you see the less you know.
- 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
To carry each other is not a burden at all
but a kind of privilege.
- Bono
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- 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
This is our moment, this is our time.
- Bono
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
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 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
I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- Bono
Feelings are much stronger than thoughts.
We are all led by instinct,
and our intellect catches up later.
- 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
Books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
The less you know, the more you believe.
- Bono
I don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God.
It's religion I'm doubting.
- Bono
Religion often gets in the way of God.
- Bono
There are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- Bono
I'm not religious at all,
but I believe in God very strongly.
- Bono
Don't lie down. Get up.
- 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
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
It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth
are rotting when I listen to the radio.
- Bono
The Spirit is described in the Holy Scriptures
as much more anarchic than any established religion credits.
- Bono
I don't believe in wishful thinking.
- Bono
I love this work I do.
It's a privilege to serve the poor.
- Bono
I feel exuberant. I don't pretend.
- 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
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
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
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
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being
to those who are on the road with you,
and accept as something precious
what comes back to you from them.
- Albert Schweitzer
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo,
but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you
when the limo breaks down.
- Oprah Winfrey
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
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