Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth
are rotting when I listen to the radio.
- Bono
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
I don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God.
It's religion I'm doubting.
- Bono
I actually enjoy being out of my depth - I thrive on it.
- Bono
Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
This is our moment, this is our time.
- Bono
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
-Bono
Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono
The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- 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
The right to be irresponsible is a right I hold dear.
- 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
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- Bono
Music can change the world because it can change people.
- 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
I feel exuberant. I don't pretend.
- Bono
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- 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
Books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
I don't believe in wishful thinking.
- Bono
Stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing -
because it's already blessed.
- 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
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
We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- Bono
The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
Religion can be the enemy of God.
- Bono
I'm not religious at all,
but I believe in God very strongly.
- 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
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
To carry each other is not a burden at all
but a kind of privilege.
- Bono
There are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- Bono
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this,
but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- 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 don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono
I love this work I do.
It's a privilege to serve the poor.
- Bono
Don't lie down. Get up.
- 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
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
Religion often gets in the way of God.
- 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
Grace defies reason and logic.
- Bono
My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono
The Spirit is described in the Holy Scriptures
as much more anarchic than any established religion credits.
- Bono
We can, if we get up off our ass, change the world.
- 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
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 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
Twinkle, twinkle little bat
How I wonder what you're at!
Up above the world you fly,
Like a tea-tray in the sky.
- Lewis Carroll
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep,
one must above all be a sheep oneself.
- Albert Einstein
May your life always be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
May you delight in Dancing Lightly With Life.
May you soar on eagle wings, high above the madness of the world.
May you always sing Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
May you taste, smell, and touch your dreams of a beautiful tomorrow.
May your sun always shine, and your sky be forever blue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;
revenging one make you but even with him;
forgiving it sets you above him.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Aim above morality.
Be not simply good,
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
Don't seek God in temples.
He is close to you.
He is within you.
Only you should surrender to Him
and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.
- Leo Tolstoy
There has to be evil so that
good can prove its purity above it.
- The Buddha
Be above the Madness of the World.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True love means putting the other person before yourself,
and honoring the relationship above all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not be too moral.
You may cheat yourself out of much life.
So aim above morality.
Be not simply good;
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
A people that values its privileges
above its principles
soon loses both.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare
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