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My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono
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You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
This is our moment, this is our time.
- Bono
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The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono
I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono
To carry each other is not a burden at all
but a kind of privilege.
- Bono
Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono
We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- 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
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- 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 be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono
I actually enjoy being out of my depth - I thrive on it.
- Bono
The right to be irresponsible is a right I hold dear.
- Bono
I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
-Bono
Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono
Grace defies reason and logic.
- Bono
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- 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
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
The Spirit is described in the Holy Scriptures
as much more anarchic than any established religion credits.
- 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
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
- Bono
Feelings are much stronger than thoughts.
We are all led by instinct,
and our intellect catches up later.
- 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 in wishful thinking.
- Bono
There are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- Bono
It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth
are rotting when I listen to the radio.
- Bono
I feel exuberant. I don't pretend.
- Bono
Religion can be the enemy of God.
- Bono
I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- Bono
Don't lie down. Get up.
- Bono
I don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God.
It's religion I'm doubting.
- 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 righteous people working
in a whole rainbow of belief systems -
from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters
to charismatic Catholics.
- 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
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
I'm not religious at all,
but I believe in God very strongly.
- Bono
Religion often gets in the way of God.
- 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 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
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
U2 is an original species...
there are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- 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 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
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
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Treat the earth well.
It was not given to you by your parents,
it was loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors,
we borrow it from our Children.
- Native American traditional
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
Nothing is more important in our national life
than the welfare of our children.
- Harry S. Truman (when signing the National School Lunch Act in 1946)
Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
I have a dream that my four little children will one day
live in a nation where they will
not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children
that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must teach our children to resolve
their conflicts with words, not weapons.
- William J. Clinton
We must respect the other fellow's religion,
but only in the sense and to the extent
that we respect his theory that
his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
- H. L. Mencken
Children are born innocent.
Before they are domesticated they live in the moment,
love without fear, and don't even think about the opinions of others.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy,
the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child.
The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
- Emma Goldman
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