Bono Quotes and Sayings

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

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

The more you see the less you know.
- Bono

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

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The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono

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

We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- Bono

With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- 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

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

You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)

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

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

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

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

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

I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- 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

It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth
are rotting when I listen to the radio.
- Bono

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

The less you know, the more you believe.
- 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 feel exuberant. I don't pretend.
- Bono

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

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

Don't lie down. Get up.
- Bono

Religion often gets in the way of God.
- Bono

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

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

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

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

I don't believe in wishful thinking.
- Bono

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

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

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

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

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

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 lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

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

What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha

Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher

Each of us dwells in a cathedral of our own BEing
that is created vast enough to encompass Unity with all creation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When the vast cathedral of our being
becomes a sanctuary for all creation,
we become the face of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures
is not to hate them,
but to be indifferent to them:
that's the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw

Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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