To carry each other is not a burden at all
but a kind of privilege.
- 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
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
-Bono
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
- Bono
The right to be irresponsible is a right I hold dear.
- Bono
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
This is our moment, this is our time.
- 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
Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono
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 religious at all,
but I believe in God very strongly.
- Bono
We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- 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
Don't lie down. Get up.
- Bono
I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono
I love this work I do.
It's a privilege to serve the poor.
- Bono
I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this,
but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- 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
The less you know, the more you believe.
- Bono
I don't believe in wishful thinking.
- Bono
Religion often gets in the way of God.
- Bono
The more you see the less you know.
- 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
Feelings are much stronger than thoughts.
We are all led by instinct,
and our intellect catches up later.
- Bono
Music can change the world because it can change people.
- Bono
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
Grace defies reason and logic.
- 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
The more you know the less you feel.
- 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
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- 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
Religion can be the enemy of God.
- 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
I feel exuberant. I don't pretend.
- 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
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 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
My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono
The Spirit is described in the Holy Scriptures
as much more anarchic than any established religion credits.
- Bono
U2 is an original species...
there are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- 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
We can, if we get up off our ass, change the world.
- 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
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
People should be angry about a lot of things
and the peace-and-love thing
doesn't sit comfortably with me at all.
- Bono
Life is like a roller coaster - scream Whee... on the way down,
and let the momentum carry you back up the next hill.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ
in color for a full hour,
there would be a considerable number of stations
which would decline to carry it on the grounds
that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.
- Edward R. Murrow
Clouds come floating into my life,
no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Trust your own inner guidance.
Have faith that your steps are
carrying you toward your dreams.
Keep your eyes on the heavens
and believe that your feet will carry you well.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If we are to teach real peace in this world,
and if we are to carry on a real war against war,
we shall have to begin with the children.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Today, I Allow Spirit To Carry All My Burdens.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being.
With freedom comes responsibility.
For the person who is unwilling to grow up,
the person who does not want to carry is own weight,
this is a frightening prospect.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
No man will ever carry out of the Presidency
the reputation which carried him into it.
- Thomas Jefferson
I must uphold my ideals,
for perhaps the time will come
when I shall be able to carry them out.
- Anne Frank
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I soothe my conscience now with the thought that
it is better for hard words to be on paper
than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
- Anne Frank
Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred.
Ritual is the spark that must not go out.
- Christina Baldwin
All major religious traditions
carry basically the same message,
that is love, compassion and forgiveness.
The important thing is they should
be part of our daily lives.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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