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Books! I dunno if I ever told you this,
but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono
Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
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To carry each other is not a burden at all
but a kind of privilege.
- Bono
This is our moment, this is our time.
- Bono
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
Grace defies reason and logic.
- Bono
The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- Bono
Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono
Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono
I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
-Bono
The less you know, the more you believe.
- Bono
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
The right to be irresponsible is a right I hold dear.
- Bono
Religion often gets in the way of God.
- Bono
Religion can be the enemy of God.
- Bono
I actually enjoy being out of my depth - I thrive on it.
- Bono
My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono
I feel exuberant. I don't pretend.
- Bono
Don't lie down. Get up.
- Bono
I don't believe in wishful thinking.
- Bono
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
Books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- 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
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
I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- Bono
Stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing -
because it's already blessed.
- 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
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
The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono
I love this work I do.
It's a privilege to serve the poor.
- 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
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
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
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
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
There are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- 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 Spirit is described in the Holy Scriptures
as much more anarchic than any established religion credits.
- 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
Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain
Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection,
not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.
- Martin Luther
Read the best books first,
or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
- Henry David Thoreau
A house without books is like a room without windows.
- Horace Mann
Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Books can only reveal us to ourselves,
and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
- Henry David Thoreau
Books are the treasured wealth of the world
and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
- Henry David Thoreau
Reading about nature is fine, but if a person
walks in the woods and listens carefully,
he can learn more than what is in books,
for they speak with the voice of God.
- George Washington Carver
We do not need to proselytize
either by our speech or by our writing.
We can only do so really with our lives.
Let our lives be open books for all to study.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Books serve to show a man
that those original thoughts of his
aren't very new at all.
- Abraham Lincoln
I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I Receive ALL of Life with Thanksgiving -
I have gratitude for EVERYTHING
that has ever occurred to bring me to this moment.
I give thanks for the joys and the sufferings,
the moments of peace and the flashes of anger,
the compassion and the indifference,
the roar of my courage and the cold sweat of my fear.
I accept gratefully the entirety of my past and my present life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa
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