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You have to open yourself up,
by 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

Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono

We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- Bono

The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

This is our moment, this is our time.
- Bono

I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono

I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono

The more you see the less you know.
- Bono

The more you know the less you feel.
- 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)

I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono

My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono

Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono

To carry each other is not a burden at all
but a kind of privilege.
- Bono

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono

I actually enjoy being out of my depth - I thrive on it.
- Bono

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono

Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono

Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono

I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
-Bono

The right to be irresponsible is a right I hold dear.
- Bono

To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- 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 want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- Bono

It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
- Bono

Music can change the world because it can change people.
- Bono

I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono

I don't believe in wishful thinking.
- 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 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! I dunno if I ever told you this,
but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- 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

Grace defies reason and logic.
- 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

I feel exuberant. I don't pretend.
- Bono

Religion often gets in the way of God.
- Bono

Stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing -
because it's already blessed.
- Bono

I love this work I do.
It's a privilege to serve the poor.
- Bono

The less you know, the more you believe.
- Bono

There are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- Bono

The Spirit is described in the Holy Scriptures
as much more anarchic than any established religion credits.
- Bono

Religion can be the enemy of God.
- 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

Feelings are much stronger than thoughts.
We are all led by instinct,
and our intellect catches up later.
- Bono

I'm not religious at all,
but I believe in God very strongly.
- 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

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

People should be angry about a lot of things
and the peace-and-love thing
doesn't sit comfortably with me at all.
- Bono

It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth
are rotting when I listen to the radio.
- 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

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 don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God.
It's religion I'm doubting.
- 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

If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)

You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People

The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard

You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis

Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton

How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore

I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein

Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only
grow if you are willing to feel awkward and
uncomfortable when you try something new.
- Brian Tracy

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie