Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.
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Cruelty is all out of ignorance. If you knew what was in store for you, you wouldn't hurt anybody, because whatever you do comes back much more forceful than you send it out.
Anybody can be unhappy. We can all be hurt. You don't have to be poor to need something or somebody. Rednecks, hippies, misfits - we're all the same. Gay or straight? So what? It doesn't matter to me. We have to be concerned about other people, regardless.
I believe that all roads lead to the same place - and that is wherever all roads lead to.
When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.
I'm from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there's no one in control.
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?
Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is.
A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world.
It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time.
Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.
I started out writing poems before I figured to put melodies to them and play the guitar. Somewhere, there's a book out there on all those early songs and poems. I hope no one ever finds it. I don't think it's my finest work.
I been a long time leaving but I'm going to be a long time gone.
I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.
My doctor tells me I should start slowing it down - but there are more old drunks than there are old doctors so let's all have another round.
We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.
Don't try to change anybody. And they should let you be yourself, 'You loved me when you met me, so let's keep going!'
If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time.
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.
You know why divorces are so expensive? They're worth it.
Freedom is control in your own life.
I didn't come here and I ain't leavin'.
What has changed is that nothing has changed... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else.
I just enjoy both working and not working.
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