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With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
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I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono
Grace defies reason and logic.
- Bono
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
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The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono
The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
To carry each other is not a burden at all
but a kind of privilege.
- Bono
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
This is our moment, this is our time.
- Bono
I actually enjoy being out of my depth - I thrive on it.
- Bono
We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- Bono
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
Don't lie down. Get up.
- Bono
Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono
My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono
The right to be irresponsible is a right I hold dear.
- Bono
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
Religion often gets in the way of God.
- Bono
I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
-Bono
I don't believe in wishful thinking.
- Bono
I feel exuberant. I don't pretend.
- 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)
Religion can be the enemy of God.
- Bono
The less you know, the more you believe.
- Bono
Stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing -
because it's already blessed.
- Bono
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
Music can change the world because it can change people.
- Bono
The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- 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 love this work I do.
It's a privilege to serve the poor.
- Bono
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
- Bono
I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- 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
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono
I'm not religious at all,
but I believe in God very strongly.
- 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
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
You have to open yourself up,
you have to be raw;
and you have to reveal yourself,
and sometimes it's very difficult.
- 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
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
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 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
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this,
but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
The Spirit is described in the Holy Scriptures
as much more anarchic than any established religion credits.
- Bono
Feelings are much stronger than thoughts.
We are all led by instinct,
and our intellect catches up later.
- Bono
Good manners sometimes means simply
putting up with other people's bad manners.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge
on their children rather than virtue,
the art of speaking well rather than doing well;
but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
From caring comes courage.
- Lao Tzu
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love.
The real miracle is the love that inspires them.
In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
- A Course in Miracles
Play to win, but be a good loser.
Have a plan for your life,
but accept whatever comes your way
with grace and gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker,
and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened,
then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion
and a genuine desire to serve others.
- Rod Stryker
Change comes from within.
- Anonymous
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It all comes to this:
the simplest way to be happy is to do good.
- Helen Keller
Pride comes in two flavors -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Change always comes bearing gifts.
- Price Pritchett
Envy comes from people's ignorance of,
or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
- Jean Vanier
What I know for sure is that
what you give comes back to you.
- Oprah Winfrey
I do my best and accept life as it comes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What you are comes to you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do your best, and always accept life as it comes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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