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I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- Bono
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I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
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This is our moment, this is our time.
- Bono
Grace defies reason and logic.
- Bono
Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- 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
The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
The less you know, the more you believe.
- Bono
Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono
We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- Bono
Religion often gets in the way of God.
- Bono
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
Don't lie down. Get up.
- Bono
I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
-Bono
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
Religion can be the enemy of God.
- Bono
My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono
I don't believe in wishful thinking.
- Bono
I feel exuberant. I don't pretend.
- Bono
Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
The right to be irresponsible is a right I hold dear.
- Bono
I actually enjoy being out of my depth - I thrive on it.
- Bono
I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono
The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono
Music can change the world because it can change people.
- 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 not religious at all,
but I believe in God very strongly.
- Bono
Books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- 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
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono
Stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing -
because it's already blessed.
- 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
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
Feelings are much stronger than thoughts.
We are all led by instinct,
and our intellect catches up later.
- Bono
The Spirit is described in the Holy Scriptures
as much more anarchic than any established religion credits.
- 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
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
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
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
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
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want to be happy, be.
- Leo Tolstoy
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
- Tom Peters
Success is getting what you want;
happiness is wanting what you get.
- Dale Carnegie
Be the change you want to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You can do what you want to do.
- David Thomas
The jump is so frightening
between where I am,
and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become,
I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Sometimes the things you really want
sneak in the back door.
Notice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We can do anything we want to
if we stick to it long enough.
- Helen Keller
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Don't be trapped by dogma -
which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of others' opinions
drown out your own inner voice.
And most important, have the courage
to follow your heart and intuition.
They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Everything else is secondary.
- Steve Jobs
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
At the center of your being you have the answer;
you know who you are and you know what you want.
- Lao Tzu
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
- Bill Cosby
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition -
they somehow already know what you truly want to become.
- Steve Jobs
Well, I don't know what will happen now.
We've got some difficult days ahead.
But it doesn't matter with me now.
Because I've been to the mountaintop.
And I don't mind. Like any man,
I would like to live a long life.
Longevity has its place.
But I'm not concerned about that now.
I just want to do God's will.
And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain.
And I've looked over.
And I've seen the promised land.
I may not get there with you.
But I want you to know tonight, that we,
as a people, will get to the promised land.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Dalai Lama
You can have anything you want -
if you want it badly enough.
You can be anything you want to be,
do anything you set out to accomplish
if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
- Abraham Lincoln
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