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The right to be irresponsible is a right I hold dear.
- Bono
Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology
Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
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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
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
The more you know the less you feel.
- 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)
This is our moment, this is our time.
- Bono
I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono
I actually enjoy being out of my depth - I thrive on it.
- 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
Grace defies reason and logic.
- Bono
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono
Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono
My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- 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
I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
-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
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
The Spirit is described in the Holy Scriptures
as much more anarchic than any established religion credits.
- Bono
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
- 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 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 don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God.
It's religion I'm doubting.
- 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
Religion often gets in the way of God.
- 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 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 believe in wishful thinking.
- Bono
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this,
but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
There are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- Bono
Books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- 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
The less you know, the more you believe.
- Bono
Don't lie down. Get up.
- Bono
Religion can be the enemy of God.
- 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 want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- Bono
I'm not religious at all,
but I believe in God very strongly.
- 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
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
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
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
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
Whatever you do, you need courage.
Whatever course you decide upon,
there is always someone to tell you
that you are wrong.
There are always difficulties arising
that tempt you to believe your critics are right.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When people get caught up with that which is right
and they are willing to sacrifice for it,
there is no stopping point short of victory.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Would you rather be right or happy?
- A Course in Miracles
If it's Right, stand up for it - together.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
If you think you can,
or you think you can't,
you're probably right.
- Henry Ford
Let's have faith that right makes might;
and in that faith let us, to the end,
dare to do our duty as we understand it.
- Abraham Lincoln
We can always choose to perceive things differently.
You can focus on what's wrong in your life,
or you can focus on what's right.
- Marianne Williamson
Nothing can stop the man with the right
mental attitude from achieving his goal;
nothing on earth can help the man
with the wrong mental attitude.
- Thomas Jefferson
Whether you think you can,
or think you can't,
you're right.
- Henry Ford
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