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I think wholeness is God's design for us;
by Bono

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

Related topics: Wisdom

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

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

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

The more you see the less you know.
- Bono

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

I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- 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

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

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

Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono

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

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

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

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

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

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

Religion can be the enemy of God.
- 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Religion often gets in the way of God.
- Bono

I don't believe in wishful thinking.
- Bono

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

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

Grace defies reason and logic.
- 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie

Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller

Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The most incomprehensible thing about the world
is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

People hardly ever make use of the freedom which they have,
for example, freedom of thought;
instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.
- Soren Kierkegaard

If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
- Albert Einstein

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie