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Bono Quotes

May you find comfort and joy in these encouraging quotes by Bono.

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

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

Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- 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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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

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

The more you know the less you feel.
- 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

Grace defies reason and logic.
- Bono

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono

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

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

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

I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
-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 colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- Bono

I don't believe in wishful thinking.
- Bono

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

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

Don't lie down. Get up.
- Bono

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

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

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

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

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

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

The less you know, the more you believe.
- 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

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

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

Clouds come floating into my life,
no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Trust your own inner guidance.
Have faith that your steps are
carrying you toward your dreams.
Keep your eyes on the heavens
and believe that your feet will carry you well.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Whosoever is spared personal pain
must feel himself called
to help in diminishing the pain of others.
We must all carry our share of
the misery which lies upon the world.
- Albert Schweitzer

Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred.
Ritual is the spark that must not go out.
- Christina Baldwin

It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals,
because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out.
Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
- West African proverb famously quoted by Theodore Roosevelt

I must uphold my ideals,
for perhaps the time will come
when I shall be able to carry them out.
- Anne Frank

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Today, I Allow Spirit To Carry All My Burdens.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Maturity is the ability to do a job
whether or not you are supervised,
to carry money without spending it,
and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.
- Ann Landers

Whenever you choose to carry resentment and hatred,
you are shouldering an immense burden that damages
your happiness, and often your health.
Does it matter that your resentment and hatred are "justified?"
Only you suffer - not the person you resent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Let today be a day to trust your own inner guidance,
a day to have faith that your steps are carrying you
in the direction you desire,
a day to keep your eyes on the heavens
and believe that your feet will carry you well.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is like a roller coaster - scream Whee... on the way down,
and let the momentum carry you back up the next hill.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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