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The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
The Spirit is described in the Holy Scriptures
as much more anarchic than any established religion credits.
- 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
To carry each other is not a burden at all
but a kind of privilege.
- Bono
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- Bono
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono
I don't believe that imagining is 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 actually enjoy being out of my depth - I thrive on it.
- 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
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono
Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono
The right to be irresponsible is a right I hold dear.
- 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
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
-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
A new command I give you: Love one another.
As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth (John 13:34)
May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you aren't in the moment,
you are either looking forward to uncertainty,
or back to pain and regret.
- Jim Carrey
A well-developed sense of humor
is the pole that adds balance to your steps,
as you walk the tightrope of life.
- William Arthur Ward
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal
with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned.
- The Buddha
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was,
Thank you, that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
You're only here for a short visit.
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Walter Hagen
Whatever you do, do with kindness.
Whatever you say, say with kindness.
Wherever you go, radiate kindness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today is your day to laugh at life,
laugh at what's funny - laugh at what's sad,
laugh loud - laugh often,
laugh at me - laugh at you - laugh at life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want to be happy, be.
- Leo Tolstoy
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Treat the earth well.
It was not given to you by your parents,
it was loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors,
we borrow it from our Children.
- Native American traditional
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day.
May songbirds serenade you every step along the way.
May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue.
And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.
- Irish Blessing
May your life always be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
May you delight in Dancing Lightly With Life.
May you soar on eagle wings, high above the madness of the world.
May you always sing Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
May you taste, smell, and touch your dreams of a beautiful tomorrow.
May your sun always shine, and your sky be forever blue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell
The more you praise and celebrate your life,
the more there is in life to celebrate.
- Oprah Winfrey
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
Curiosity takes courage.
The most important promises are the ones you make to yourself.
Pay Attention.
Appreciate. Listen. Imagine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Ask and it will be given to you;
seek and you will find;
knock and the door will be opened to you.
- Matthew 7:7
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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