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To be one, to be united is a great thing.
by Bono

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

Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology Unity Open Diversity Tolerance

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

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

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

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

The more you see the less you know.
- Bono

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

Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono

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

Grace defies reason and logic.
- Bono

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

Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- 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

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

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

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

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

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

Stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing -
because it's already blessed.
- 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 Spirit is described in the Holy Scriptures
as much more anarchic than any established religion credits.
- Bono

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

I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono

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

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

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

Religion can be the enemy of God.
- Bono

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

Don't lie down. Get up.
- 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

I don't believe in wishful thinking.
- 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

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

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

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

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

Religion often gets in the way of God.
- Bono

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

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

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

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

Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell

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

One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow

The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard

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

Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anais Nin

Drop the sword - for there is but one flesh to wound,
and it is the one flesh of all humankind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Try a new perspective on diversity.
Across the country and around the world,
we are all one.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro

There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein

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