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Feelings are much stronger than thoughts.
We are all led by instinct,
and our intellect catches up later.
- Bono
To carry each other is not a burden at all
but a kind of privilege.
- Bono
I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- 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
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Grace defies reason and logic.
- Bono
Stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing -
because it's already blessed.
- Bono
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
This is our moment, this is our time.
- Bono
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
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
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
We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- Bono
I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono
Don't lie down. Get up.
- Bono
The right to be irresponsible is a right I hold dear.
- Bono
I actually enjoy being out of my depth - I thrive on it.
- Bono
Religion often gets in the way of God.
- Bono
Religion can be the enemy of God.
- Bono
The Spirit is described in the Holy Scriptures
as much more anarchic than any established religion credits.
- Bono
Books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- 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
There are righteous people working
in a whole rainbow of belief systems -
from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters
to charismatic Catholics.
- 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
Music can change the world because it can change people.
- Bono
I love this work I do.
It's a privilege to serve the poor.
- Bono
Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono
The less you know, the more you believe.
- Bono
I feel exuberant. I don't pretend.
- 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 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
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'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
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
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
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
- 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
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
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
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
If you talk to a man in a language he understands,
that goes to his head.
If you talk to him in his language,
that goes to his heart.
- Nelson Mandela
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
You hurt because you're alive.
- the 2010 movie Charlie St. Cloud
Joy increases and suffering decreases
as one masters the distinction between events
and one's feelings about those events.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I offer you peace.
I offer you love.
I offer you friendship.
I see your beauty.
I hear your need.
I feel your feelings.
My wisdom flows from the Highest Source.
I salute that Source in you.
Let us work together for unity and love.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
- Harry S. Truman
I have gratitude for EVERYTHING that has ever occurred
to bring me to this moment.
I accept that no one else is ever to blame
for either my joy or my suffering.
The entire cause of all my joys and all my sufferings
is my own emotional response to the events of my life,
and I am committed to consistently distinguishing
between my feelings about events
and the physical occurrences of those events.
I declare that everyone who has ever played
any role in any of the events of my life
is entirely without fault.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers,
but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings.
The curriculum is so much necessary raw material,
but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant
and for the soul of the child.
- Carl Jung
I'm half alive but I feel mostly dead.
- Jewel
We don't have a language for the senses.
Feelings are images,
sensations are like musical sounds.
- Anais Nin
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