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I'm not on this trip as a tourist. ...
by Bono

I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono

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The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono

The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono

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

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This is our moment, this is our time.
- Bono

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

With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono

 

To carry each other is not a burden at all
but a kind of privilege.
- Bono

Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono

The more you see the less you know.
- 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)

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

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

Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono

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

Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- 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

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

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

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- 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

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

Grace defies reason and logic.
- 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

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

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 don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God.
It's religion I'm doubting.
- 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

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

I love this work I do.
It's a privilege to serve the poor.
- 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

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

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

You have to open yourself up,
you have to be raw;
and you have to reveal yourself,
and sometimes it's very difficult.
- Bono

Religion can be the enemy of God.
- Bono

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

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

I don't believe in wishful thinking.
- Bono

Music can change the world because it can change people.
- 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

Don't lie down. Get up.
- Bono

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

Religion often gets in the way of God.
- 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

People should be angry about a lot of things
and the peace-and-love thing
doesn't sit comfortably with me at all.
- Bono

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

We can, if we get up off our ass, change the world.
- 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

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

Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi

"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu

The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch

The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu

I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott

Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius

The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson

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

A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu

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

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