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With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
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The Spirit is described in the Holy Scriptures
as much more anarchic than any established religion credits.
- Bono
Grace defies reason and logic.
- Bono
To carry each other is not a burden at all
but a kind of privilege.
- Bono
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing -
because it's already blessed.
- 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 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 think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono
This is our moment, this is our time.
- Bono
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- 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
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
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
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
The right to be irresponsible is a right I hold dear.
- Bono
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- 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
I actually enjoy being out of my depth - I thrive on it.
- 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
The less you know, the more you believe.
- Bono
I'm not religious at all,
but I believe in God very strongly.
- Bono
It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth
are rotting when I listen to the radio.
- 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
Good manners sometimes means simply
putting up with other people's bad manners.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge
on their children rather than virtue,
the art of speaking well rather than doing well;
but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love.
The real miracle is the love that inspires them.
In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
- A Course in Miracles
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
From caring comes courage.
- Lao Tzu
Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker,
and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened,
then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion
and a genuine desire to serve others.
- Rod Stryker
Faith is the highest passion in a human being.
Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Forgive and give as if it were your last opportunity.
Love like there's no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again.
- Max Lucado
Envy comes from people's ignorance of,
or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
- Jean Vanier
What I know for sure is that
what you give comes back to you.
- Oprah Winfrey
Change comes from within.
- Anonymous
It all comes to this:
the simplest way to be happy is to do good.
- Helen Keller
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Do your best, and always accept life as it comes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Play to win, but be a good loser.
Have a plan for your life,
but accept whatever comes your way
with grace and gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can not find happiness by chasing after it.
Happiness comes from doing what you love to do,
and from being who you truly are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything comes to us that belongs to us
if we create the capacity to receive it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
There comes a time when the mind
takes a higher plane of knowledge
but can never prove how it got there.
- Albert Einstein
For those who are bored with life,
the path to happiness almost always comes
through service to the less-fortunate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
- The Buddha
You have to accept whatever comes
and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage
and with the best that you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Improve what you can
and accept all the rest of life
just as it comes.
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?
Expediency asks the question - is it politic?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
But conscience asks the question - is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position
that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular;
but one must take it BECAUSE it is right.
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I do my best and accept life as it comes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
- Maimonides
Confidence comes not from always being right
but from not fearing to be wrong.
- Peter T. Mcintyre
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Vince Lombardi
Happiness comes when I remember that others' opinions of me
are just their opinions - nothing more.
I find happiness in moving toward my goals
regardless of the applause or the jeers of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
Truth cannot be defined,
although it can certainly be experienced.
But experience is not a definition.
A definition is made by the mind,
experience comes through participating.
If somebody asks, "What is a dance?" how can you define it?
But you can dance and you can know the inner feel of it.
God is the ultimate dance.
- Osho
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Pride comes in two flavors -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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