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Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono
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We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- Bono
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono
This is our moment, this is our time.
- Bono
I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- 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 more you see the less you know.
- Bono
I actually enjoy being out of my depth - I thrive on it.
- Bono
To carry each other is not a burden at all
but a kind of privilege.
- 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
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- 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
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono
Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
- 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
I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- 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
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 feel exuberant. I don't pretend.
- 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'm not religious at all,
but I believe in God very strongly.
- Bono
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this,
but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
Music can change the world because it can change people.
- Bono
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
Religion often gets in the way of God.
- Bono
Don't lie down. Get up.
- Bono
Stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing -
because it's already blessed.
- 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 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 Spirit is described in the Holy Scriptures
as much more anarchic than any established religion credits.
- Bono
I love this work I do.
It's a privilege to serve the poor.
- 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
Grace defies reason and logic.
- 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
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
The less you know, the more you believe.
- 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 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
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 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
It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth
are rotting when I listen to the radio.
- 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 don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God.
It's religion I'm doubting.
- Bono
U2 is an original species...
there are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- Bono
We can, if we get up off our ass, change the world.
- 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
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion,
for the real and for the truth.
- Abraham Maslow
Which beliefs bring out the best in you?
Which beliefs hold you prisoner to yesterday
and limit your options for designing a great future?
Test your beliefs with as much objectivity
as you can bring to the subject.
Be willing to let go of those beliefs
that represent your parents' opinions,
or your communities opinions, rather than your own.
Those beliefs that withstand rigorous testing,
should become the foundation of your being -
your reason for living.
Take action on those beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We may have found a cure for most evils;
but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all,
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
Prevention is better than cure.
- Desiderius Erasmus
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
- Benjamin Franklin
Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is,
a dissatisfaction with self.
- Joan Didion
Understanding does not cure evil,
but it is a definite help,
inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness.
- Carl Jung
As a cure for worrying,
work is better than whiskey.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
- George Santayana
The only cure for grief is action.
- G. H. Lewes
Show me a sane man, and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Jung
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