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We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- Bono
Related topics: Wisdom Perspective
I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
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Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono
Grace defies reason and logic.
- Bono
This is our moment, this is our time.
- Bono
The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
To carry each other is not a burden at all
but a kind of privilege.
- Bono
I don't believe in wishful thinking.
- Bono
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
I feel exuberant. I don't pretend.
- Bono
I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
-Bono
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- 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
My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
Religion often gets in the way of God.
- Bono
Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono
Religion can be the enemy of God.
- Bono
The less you know, the more you believe.
- Bono
Don't lie down. Get up.
- Bono
I actually enjoy being out of my depth - I thrive on it.
- Bono
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
- Bono
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- 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 think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono
Music can change the world because it can change people.
- Bono
I love this work I do.
It's a privilege to serve the poor.
- Bono
Books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- Bono
I'm not religious at all,
but I believe in God very strongly.
- Bono
Stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing -
because it's already blessed.
- 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 world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- 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
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
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
There are righteous people working
in a whole rainbow of belief systems -
from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters
to charismatic Catholics.
- Bono
There are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- 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
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this,
but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- 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
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
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
Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous
Every thought we think is creating our future.
- Louise L. Hay
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
There are two kinds of failures:
those who thought and never did,
and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J. Peter
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha
The glow of one warm thought
is to me worth more than money.
- Thomas Jefferson
Every thought you think
and every word you speak
is affirming something.
- Louise L. Hay
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
I unconditionally forgive myself for everything
that I have ever done, said, or thought
that has caused me harm or suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln
The revelation of thought takes men
out of servitude into freedom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I want it said of me by those who knew me best,
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln
All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him.
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet
as if they were going to be dead by midnight.
Extend to them all the care,
kindness and understanding you can muster,
and do with no thought of any reward.
Your life will never be the same again.
- Og Mandino
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others,
you should put a good deal of thought
into the happiness that you are able to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
When you are tempted to judge,
may you be reminded that we are ALL ONE,
and that every thought you think reverberates
across the universe touching everyone and everything.
- from the Simple Truths movie May You Be Blessed
So your father, or your mother,
never thought you were good enough - SO WHAT?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Always aim at complete harmony
of thought and word and deed.
Always aim at purifying your thoughts
and everything will be well.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Nobody needs your help.
I know, I know, this is a difficult one. But it is true.
This does not mean no one wants your help,
or that no one could use your help.
It simply means the thought that another
Aspect of Divinity is powerless without you is inaccurate.
- Neale Donald Walsch
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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