You have to be what you are. Whatever you are, you gotta be it.
JOHNNY CASHThere is a spiritual side to me that goes real deep, but I confess right up front that I’m the biggest sinner of them all.
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I’m not really concerned about boundaries. I just follow my conscience and my heart. Follow your heart. That’s what I do. Compassion is something I have a lot of, because I’ve been through a lot of pain in my life. Anybody who has suffered a lot of pain has a lot of compassion.
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You’ve got to know your limitations. I don’t know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren’t too many limitations, if I did it my way.
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It’s good to know who hates you and it is good to be hated by the right people.
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You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.
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Life and love go on, let the music play.
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There is a spiritual side to me that goes real deep, but I confess right up front that I’m the biggest sinner of them all.
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You’re so heavenly minded, you’re no earthly good.
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For you I know I’d even try to turn the tide.
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I knew that when I left there at the age of 18, I wouldn’t be back. And it was common knowledge among all the people there that when you graduate from high school here, you go to college or go get a job or something and do it on your own.
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The fire and excitement may be gone now that we don’t go out there and sing them anymore, but the ring of fire still burns around you and I, keeping our love hotter than a pepper sprout.
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I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It’s still my symbol of rebellion — against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others’ ideas.
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I just hope and pray I can die with my boots on.
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Happiness is being at peace, being with loved ones, being comfortable but most of all, it’s having those loved ones.
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Life is rough so you gotta be tough.
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The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I’ve got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer.
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The battle against the dark one and the clinging to the right one is what my life is about.
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When I’m gone I’ll be remembered as the workin’ man who put his point across with a right hand full of knuckles.
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When God forgave me, I figured I’d better do it too.
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I learn from my mistakes. It’s a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there’s no gain.
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When you sing, you pray twice.
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You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.
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Inside the walls of a prison my body may be, but my Lord has set my soul free.
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All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate. I choose love.
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As sure as God made black and white, what’s done in the dark will be brought to the light.
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The more I learn, the more excited I get.
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I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get.
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