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 don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God.
It's religion I'm doubting.
- Bono
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth
are rotting when I listen to the radio.
- Bono
Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono
I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
-Bono
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
- Bono
Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- 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
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
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
The right to be irresponsible is a right I hold dear.
- Bono
This is our moment, this is our time.
- 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
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
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
I don't believe in wishful thinking.
- Bono
I love this work I do.
It's a privilege to serve the poor.
- 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
Don't lie down. Get up.
- Bono
My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono
Books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- 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
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
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
I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono
Stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing -
because it's already blessed.
- Bono
I feel exuberant. I don't pretend.
- Bono
I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- Bono
Music can change the world because it can change people.
- Bono
I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono
Grace defies reason and logic.
- Bono
I'm not religious at all,
but I believe in God very strongly.
- Bono
The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
Religion often gets in the way of God.
- Bono
Religion can be the enemy of God.
- 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
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this,
but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- Bono
To carry each other is not a burden at all
but a kind of privilege.
- 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
There are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- Bono
The less you know, the more you believe.
- Bono
The Spirit is described in the Holy Scriptures
as much more anarchic than any established religion credits.
- 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
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
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
People should be angry about a lot of things
and the peace-and-love thing
doesn't sit comfortably with me at all.
- Bono
U2 is an original species...
there are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- Bono
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
- H. L. Mencken
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
- Edgar Bergen
Crazy is walking down the street
with half a cantaloupe on your head,
muttering; "I'm a hamster, I'm a hamster."
- the movie Spy Hard (1996)
It is hard enough to remember my opinions,
without also remembering my reasons for them!
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a series of experiences,
each one of which makes us bigger,
even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
- Henry Ford
Experience is a hard teacher.
She gives the test first
and the lessons afterwards.
- Anonymous
A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror,
victory however long and hard the road may be;
for without victory, there is no survival.
- Winston Churchill
When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
- Khalil Gibran
Truly great friends are hard to find,
difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
- Anonymous
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