I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
by Bono

I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- Bono

Related topics: Service

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

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

This is our moment, this is our time.
- 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

I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono

The more you see the less you know.
- 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

I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono

The right to be irresponsible is a right I hold dear.
- Bono

Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono

I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
-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

I actually enjoy being out of my depth - I thrive on it.
- Bono

Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono

My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono

Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono

To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono

Grace defies reason and logic.
- Bono

I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- 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

There are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- Bono

It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
- Bono

Religion often gets in the way of God.
- 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

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

Stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing -
because it's already blessed.
- Bono

Religion can be the enemy of God.
- Bono

I feel exuberant. I don't pretend.
- Bono

Feelings are much stronger than thoughts.
We are all led by instinct,
and our intellect catches up later.
- Bono

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this,
but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- 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

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

The Spirit is described in the Holy Scriptures
as much more anarchic than any established religion credits.
- 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

Books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono

I'm not religious at all,
but I believe in God very strongly.
- 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

There are righteous people working
in a whole rainbow of belief systems -
from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters
to charismatic Catholics.
- 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

The less you know, the more you believe.
- Bono

Don't lie down. Get up.
- Bono

I don't believe in wishful thinking.
- 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 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

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

U2 is an original species...
there are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- Bono

It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth
are rotting when I listen to the radio.
- 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 don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God.
It's religion I'm doubting.
- 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 can, if we get up off our ass, change the world.
- Bono

The jump is so frightening
between where I am,
and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become,
I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln

Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
- Bill Cosby

How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton

If you want to be happy, be.
- Leo Tolstoy

If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela

Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher

You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar

Determine never to be idle.
No person will have occasion to complain
of the want of time who never loses any.
It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Thomas Jefferson

For want of a nail the shoe was lost;
for want of a shoe the horse was lost;
and for want of a horse the rider was lost.
- Benjamin Franklin

Remember that not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Do you want to know who you are?
Don't ask. Act!
Action will delineate and define you.
- Thomas Jefferson

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie