There’s no way around grief and loss: you can dodge all you want, but sooner or later you just have to go into it, through it, and, hopefully, come out the other side. The world you find there will never be the same as the world you left.
JOHNNY CASHIf you’re going to be a Christian, you’re going to change. You’re going to lose some old friends, not because you want to, but because you need to.
More Johnny Cash Quotes
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How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.
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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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The ones that you’re calling wild are going to be the leaders in a little while.
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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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As sure as God made black and white, what’s done in the dark will be brought to the light.
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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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We’ll all be equal under the grass, and God’s got a heaven for country trash.
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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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There’s a lot of things blamed on me that never happened. But then, there’s a lot of things that I did that I never got caught at.
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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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Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.
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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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Gospel music was the thing that inspired me as a child growing up on a cotton farm, where work was drudgery and it was so hard that when I was in the field I sang all the time.
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When I was a baby, my mama told me son, always be a good boy, don’t ever play with guns. But I shot a man in Reno.
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You miss a lot of opportunities by making mistakes, but that’s part of it: knowing that you’re not shut out forever, and that there’s a goal you still can reach.
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