This is our moment, this is our time.
- Bono
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The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- Bono
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono
The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono
Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono
The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono
Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
To carry each other is not a burden at all
but a kind of privilege.
- 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
I actually enjoy being out of my depth - I thrive on it.
- Bono
The right to be irresponsible is a right I hold dear.
- Bono
I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
-Bono
My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
There are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- Bono
Religion can be the enemy of God.
- Bono
I don't believe in wishful thinking.
- Bono
Music can change the world because it can change people.
- 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
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
Religion often gets in the way of God.
- Bono
I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- 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
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
Books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- 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
You have to open yourself up,
you have to be raw;
and you have to reveal yourself,
and sometimes it's very difficult.
- 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
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
- Bono
Feelings are much stronger than thoughts.
We are all led by instinct,
and our intellect catches up later.
- 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
Grace defies reason and logic.
- Bono
I'm not religious at all,
but I believe in God very strongly.
- Bono
The Spirit is described in the Holy Scriptures
as much more anarchic than any established religion credits.
- 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
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this,
but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
I feel exuberant. I don't pretend.
- Bono
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
Don't lie down. Get up.
- 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
Stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing -
because it's already blessed.
- 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'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
I don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God.
It's religion I'm doubting.
- Bono
We can, if we get up off our ass, change the world.
- Bono
U2 is an original species...
there are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- 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
People should be angry about a lot of things
and the peace-and-love thing
doesn't sit comfortably with me at all.
- Bono
We cannot choose our external circumstances,
but we can always choose how to respond to them.
- Epictetus
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe,
our class, and our nation;
and this means we must develop a world perspective.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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