I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
-Bono
I don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God.
It's religion I'm doubting.
- Bono
It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth
are rotting when I listen to the radio.
- Bono
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
The right to be irresponsible is a right I hold dear.
- Bono
Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- 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 either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono
The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
- Bono
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono
This is our moment, this is our time.
- Bono
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono
I actually enjoy being out of my depth - I thrive on it.
- 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
To carry each other is not a burden at all
but a kind of privilege.
- Bono
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- 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 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
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
Grace defies reason and logic.
- Bono
Don't lie down. Get up.
- 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
I love this work I do.
It's a privilege to serve the poor.
- Bono
I feel exuberant. I don't pretend.
- Bono
The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
Music can change the world because it can change people.
- Bono
Religion can be the enemy of God.
- Bono
Feelings are much stronger than thoughts.
We are all led by instinct,
and our intellect catches up later.
- Bono
I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono
I don't believe in wishful thinking.
- 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
My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- 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
The less you know, the more you believe.
- 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
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 more you see the less you know.
- 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
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
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
Stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing -
because it's already blessed.
- Bono
The Spirit is described in the Holy Scriptures
as much more anarchic than any established religion credits.
- Bono
We can, if we get up off our ass, change the world.
- Bono
I come from Ireland and I've seen the damage of religious warfare.
I am a believer. I don't wear the badge on the outside
but it is on the inside.
- Bono
U2 is an original species...
there are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- Bono
Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd.
In the past, U2 was trying to duck that.
Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.
- Bono
People should be angry about a lot of things
and the peace-and-love thing
doesn't sit comfortably with me at all.
- Bono
I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
Now at what point does an unpopular conviction
interfere with your own human rights?
Forced female circumcision, for instance.
The Catholic Church's stance on contraception.
The list goes on. You know, God has some really weird kids,
and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.
- Bono
NO ONE is really different;
each of us is actually a member of the human race.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As we let our light shine,
we unconsciously give other people
permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence actually liberates others.
- Marianne Williamson
Every known fact in natural science was divined
by the presentiment of somebody,
before it was actually verified.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Few are the giants of the soul that actually feel
that the human race is their family circle.
- Freya Stark
In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue.
If we have enough friends, we may go on for years,
intending to leave, talking about leaving -
instead of actually getting up and leaving.
- Erica Jong
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
It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war;
but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on,
we must defend ourselves.
If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether
it was fired from within or without,
we must try to extinguish it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Almost nothing you worry about today
will matter in a hundred years.
Think carefully about what you can focus on today.
Choose tasks that will actually make a positive difference
to your great-grandchildren.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves,
Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.
- Marianne Williamson
Do real life people actually fall in love
with the idea of being in love?
Unfortunately, it is actually quite common.
Someone wants desperately to have
the husband or wife of their dreams.
They visualize the vine-covered cottage
with the white picket fence.
They choose the colors for the nursery.
They design all the aspects of their married life.
A real person stands no chance of measuring up to those fantasies.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Each of us holds a different image of God.
There are as many perspectives on
the nature of God as there are people.
However much any of us may choose to argue,
or to fight and kill, for our point of view,
the nature of God is an unanswerable question.
Perhaps there is a specific answer,
that we will never learn - in this lifetime.
Perhaps the nature of God is so complex and multifaceted
that each view of God describes an aspect of the complex whole.
Or perhaps the nature of God is actually defined by our beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Feel Unity with Spirit and All Creation
All things share the same breath the
beast, the tree, the man... the air
shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle [actually written by screenwriter Ted Perry in 1972]
I think one of the finest gifts I can give
my friends in the holiday season is to pause
with a long enough quality to actually SEE them.
My calm, unhurried presence communicates
this gift of a message, "I see you. I recognize you.
I remember our times of together
and am contributing right now to another quality memory.
I value you and honor and take the time,
right this moment to pause long enough to truly notice you."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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