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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 don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
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This is our moment, this is our time.
- Bono
Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
To carry each other is not a burden at all
but a kind of privilege.
- Bono
The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
Grace defies reason and logic.
- Bono
We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- Bono
I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
-Bono
My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono
The less you know, the more you believe.
- Bono
Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono
Religion can be the enemy of God.
- Bono
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
I don't believe in wishful thinking.
- Bono
Don't lie down. Get up.
- 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 often gets in the way of God.
- Bono
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
I actually enjoy being out of my depth - I thrive on it.
- Bono
I feel exuberant. I don't pretend.
- Bono
The right to be irresponsible is a right I hold dear.
- 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
The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- 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
I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- Bono
I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono
Stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing -
because it's already blessed.
- 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 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
Music can change the world because it can change people.
- Bono
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
- 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
Feelings are much stronger than thoughts.
We are all led by instinct,
and our intellect catches up later.
- 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
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this,
but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- 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
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 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
You have to open yourself up,
you have to be raw;
and you have to reveal yourself,
and sometimes it's very difficult.
- Bono
Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere,
while the pessimist sees only the red stoplight.
The truly wise person is colorblind.
- Albert Schweitzer
Logic will get you from A to B.
Imagination will take you everywhere.
- Albert Einstein
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
- Jewish Proverb
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We are all "neighbors."
Our world has gotten too small for us to be anything else.
We can no longer have "us" and "them" - friends and enemies.
A person from Iraq, or Russia, or Columbia is
no more a stranger or enemy than a person from across town.
A few people everywhere are troublemakers.
Every religion provokes a few people to become extremists.
Do we need police around the globe? Unfortunately, we always will.
Do we need war? Does that question even deserve an answer?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you are possessed by an idea,
you will find it expressed everywhere,
you even smell it.
- Thomas Mann
Suffering is everywhere. Don't ever think it isn't.
So are miracles. Don't ever think they aren't.
- Jewel
Let us not be satisfied with just giving money.
Money is not enough, money can be got,
but they need your hearts to love them.
So, spread your love everywhere you go.
- Mother Teresa
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
- John Lubbock
When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller
Just stop it. Seriously.
Whatever it is. Just stop it.
If only for an hour, a day, a week.
Stop doing it long enough to get a glimpse
of what the change would actually look like.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Find a time and place of solitude.
Look into the distance, and into the future.
Visualize the tomorrow you are going to build -
and begin to build that tomorrow, today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller
Obstacles are like wild animals.
They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can.
If they see you are afraid of them...
they are liable to spring upon you;
but if you look them squarely in the eye,
they will slink out of sight.
- Orison Swett Marden
Whatever happens, always look to tomorrow -
with courage and optimism.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Could a greater miracle take place
than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
- Henry David Thoreau
Do not look for approval
except for the consciousness of doing your best.
- Andrew Carnegie
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