As adults we try to relax from the never-ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever works for us, but the wisdom isn’t in the whiskey or the smoke. The wisdom is in the moments when the madness slips away and we remember the basics.
WILLIE NELSONIt’s an ongoing problem, an ongoing situation, life is. It’s just life, and it never stops and it never will. You just be thankful for what you’ve got, and move on.
More Willie Nelson Quotes
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I’m drowning in whiskey river.
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You will never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
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A frozen river is not a dry one, it’s just a still river on the surface but is still moving, and so am my winter writing.
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Sadly, there are more wild horses in holding pens than in the wild.
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The biggest killer on the planet is stress and I still think the best medicine is and always has been cannabis.
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If you want to make marijuana legal, you’ve got to stay straight long enough to f – vote.
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The life I love is making music with my friends.
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Freedom is control in your own life.
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God has blessed you richly, so get down on your knees and thank him. Don’t forget the less fortunate or God will personally kick your ass. I’d love to do it for him, but I can’t be everywhere.
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As long as there’s a few farmers out there, we’ll keep fighting for them.
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There’s a freedom you begin to feel the closer you get to Austin, Texas.
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I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?
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I would like to see more airplay for all artists, no matter what age. I think there’s a lot of money being spent toward the young guys, but a lot of the older guys are the ones who blazed the trail for those young guys.
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You know why divorces are so expensive? They’re worth it.
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The fight to save family farms isn’t just about farmers. It’s about making sure that there is a safe and healthy food supply for all of us. It’s about jobs, from Main Street to Wall Street. It’s about a better America.
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Be gentle with your words – you can’t take them back.
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We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.
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My wife actually got worried about my drinking so much regular milk, you know, so she got me into rice milk and now soy milk, which I greatly enjoy. A soy mocha’s a fine thing.
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What has changed is that nothing has changed. That’s what has made me more unhappy than everything else.
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I been a long time leaving but I’m going to be a long time gone.
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I take it not only a day at a time, but a moment at a time, and keep it at that pace. If you can be happy right now, then you’ll always be happy, because it’s always in the now
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If a song was ever good, it’s still good.
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Just take what you need from the ladies and leave them.
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Ninety-nine percent of the world’s lovers are not with their first choice. That’s what makes the jukebox play.
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Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.
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There is only one map to the journey of life and it lives within your heart.
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