I learned some invaluable lessons in Nashville that apply to both farming and show business: Do not corner something you know is meaner than you; keep skunks of all kinds at a distance; if you forgive your enemies, it messes up their heads.
WILLIE NELSONWe create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.
More Willie Nelson Quotes
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I’m drinking doubles now that you’re running around single again.
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When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.
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You don’t have to be poor to need something or somebody.
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When you’re singing, you’re using extra muscles, and it requires a lot of exercise and breathing. You can’t do that if you’re a sissy. If I have any fitness advice for people, I’d tell them to sing more. It’s good therapy, too.
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Be gentle with your words – you can’t take them back.
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I’m drowning in whiskey river.
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I don’t think any person has any special knowledge about what God has planned for me and you any more than me and you do.
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Little things I should have said and done I just never took the time You were always on my mind.
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You can’t make a record if you ain’t got nothin’ to say.
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You’ll never get ahead by blaming your problems on other people.
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When I see someone I think is cool, he’s a pretty well-adjusted individual. He’s not too affected one way or the other by what’s happening, no matter what’s going through his mind.
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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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Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.
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I wanted to connect all people who are thinking about peace on Earth.
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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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