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I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
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Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono
The right to be irresponsible is a right I hold dear.
- 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
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
I actually enjoy being out of my depth - I thrive on it.
- Bono
Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- 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'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
-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
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
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
This is our moment, this is our time.
- Bono
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono
We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- 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
Stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing -
because it's already blessed.
- Bono
I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- 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
There are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- Bono
The Spirit is described in the Holy Scriptures
as much more anarchic than any established religion credits.
- Bono
Books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth
are rotting when I listen to the radio.
- Bono
Feelings are much stronger than thoughts.
We are all led by instinct,
and our intellect catches up later.
- Bono
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this,
but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- 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
Religion can be the enemy of God.
- 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
Music can change the world because it can change people.
- Bono
I don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God.
It's religion I'm doubting.
- 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
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
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
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
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
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'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
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
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)
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
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
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