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We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- Bono
Related topics: Wisdom Perspective
The Spirit is described in the Holy Scriptures
as much more anarchic than any established religion credits.
- 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
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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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To carry each other is not a burden at all
but a kind of privilege.
- Bono
Stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing -
because it's already blessed.
- Bono
Grace defies reason and logic.
- Bono
I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono
Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
This is our moment, this is our time.
- Bono
The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono
The right to be irresponsible is a right I hold dear.
- Bono
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono
I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
-Bono
Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- 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
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- 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
It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth
are rotting when I listen to the radio.
- Bono
The less you know, the more you believe.
- Bono
I'm not religious at all,
but I believe in God very strongly.
- 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
Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store.
What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.
- Dr. Seuss
Every thought we think is creating our future.
- Louise L. Hay
Day by day we should weigh what we have
granted to the spirit of the world
against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus,
in thought and especially in deed.
- Albert Schweitzer
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
You are to have implicit confidence in your own ability,
knowing that it is the nature of thought
to externalize itself in your health and affairs,
knowing that you are the thinker.
- Ernest Holmes
The intellect is a cold thing
and a merely intellectual idea
will never stimulate thought
in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.
- Ernest Holmes
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Every thought you think
and every word you speak
is affirming something.
- Louise L. Hay
Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling,
arising within the mind of the one praying.
- Ernest Holmes
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others,
you should put a good deal of thought
into the happiness that you are able to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The glow of one warm thought
is to me worth more than money.
- Thomas Jefferson
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
Every loving thought is true.
Everything else is an appeal for healing and help,
regardless of the form it takes.
- A Course In Miracles
God is a metaphor for that which transcends
all levels of intellectual thought.
It's as simple as that.
- Joseph Campbell
Exercise free-will.
CHOOSE each and every action you make,
every thought you think,
and every emotion you feel.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have always held firmly to the thought
that each one of us can do a little
to bring some portion of misery to an end.
- Albert Schweitzer
There are two kinds of failures:
those who thought and never did,
and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J. Peter
I am a being of free-will,
and I CHOOSE each and every action I make,
every thought I think, and every emotion I feel.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Always aim at complete harmony
of thought and word and deed.
Always aim at purifying your thoughts
and everything will be well.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
When you are tempted to judge,
may you be reminded that we are ALL ONE,
and that every thought you think reverberates
across the universe touching everyone and everything.
- from the Simple Truths movie May You Be Blessed
Nay, be a Columbus to whole new
continents and worlds within you,
opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
- Henry David Thoreau
Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln
When I examine myself and my methods of thought,
I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy
has meant more to me than
any talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Reality is what you believe it to be.
It's what you put your thought and energy into,
because your hands physically manifest thought.
So your world becomes what you feel and what you think.
- Jewel
People hardly ever make use of the freedom which they have,
for example, freedom of thought;
instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Sometimes I think we're alone.
Sometimes I think we're not.
In either case, the thought is staggering.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
I unconditionally forgive myself for everything
that I have ever done, said, or thought
that has caused me harm or suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus
It is wonderful to have Faith,
but don't confuse trust with being gullible.
Balance trust with conscious thought.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha
Action is no less necessary than thought
to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg
Curiosity keeps one young - in thought and in action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In the uttermost meaning of the words,
thought is devout, and devotion is thought.
Deep calls unto deep.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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