Willie Nelson Quotes

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.

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

I think it is just terrible and disgusting how everyone has treated Lance Armstrong, especially after what he achieved winning seven Tour de France races while on drugs......When I was on drugs I couldn't even find my bike.

We are the same. There is no difference anywhere in the world. People are people. They laugh, cry, feel, and love, and music seems to be the commons denomination that brings us all together. Music cuts through all boundaries and goes right to the soul.

If you wait for tomorrow to follow your dreams, by the time that you get there they're gone.

If you’re not crazy there’s something wrong with you. Willie Nelson

There is only one map to the journey of life and it lives within your heart

The biggest killer on the planet is stress and I still think the best medicine is and always has been cannabis.

Be gentle with your words - you can't take them back.

Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there.

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.

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.

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

If you can be content right now, then you'll always be content, because it's always right now.

I don’t believe in adhering to any rules I don’t support and I didn’t vote for. To hell with what people think. Just be who you are and you’ll be happy.

You know why divorces are so expensive? They're worth it.

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.

Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.

On the road again, goin' places that I've never been. Seein' things that I may never see again, and I can't wait to get on the road again.

You will never find happiness until you stop looking for it.

I live one day at a time, one day at a time. Yesterday's gone and tomorrow is blind, so I live one day at a time.

What goes around, comes around.

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.

I like marijuana because it keeps me from killing people. And I think there are a lot of people out there who are just like me. The reason it's not legal is because most people get up in the morning and get high, then forget to go out and vote for it.

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?

I was in the Air Force a while and they had what they call "policing the area." That's where you looked around and if there's anything wrong here, there, anywhere, you took care of your own area. And I think that's a pretty good thing to go by. If everyone just takes care of their own area then we won't have any problems. Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there. And look around you and see what needs to be changed.

Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is.

...when you put your life in a good place, good things follow.

I got along without you before I met you and I'll get along without you a long time after you're gone.

We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.

I'm crazy for trying, crazy for crying, and I'm crazy for loving you.

Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place.

In church I was told that if I so much as smoked a cigarette or tasted alcohol, I’d be damned in hell for all eternity... it didn’t take long for me to start thinking that sounded all wrong... I didn’t cotton to the idea that your religion should be flaunted to other people. Your religion is for you, and is best kept close to your heart.

Fortunately, we are not in control.

If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves.

There are more old drunks than there are old doctors.

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.

Rather than trying to put an end to Eminem or some other rapper, politicians should think about why they're rapping. It's easier to try to censor some kid who's swearing about poverty than it is to stop the poverty.

Love is like a dying ember, only memories remain.

You don't have to be poor to need something or somebody.

I started learning my lessons in Abbot Texas, where I was born in 1933. My sister Bobbie and I were raised by our grandparents [...] We never had enough money, and Bobbie and I started working at an early age to help the family get by. That hard work included picking cotton. [...] Picking cotton is hard and painful work, and the most lasting lesson I learned in the fields was that I didn't want to spend my life picking cotton.

I believe that all roads lead to the same place - and that is wherever all roads lead to.

You'll never get ahead by blaming your problems on other people.

I think hemp is one of the greatest plants that God put in the ground, and I don't think anybody has the right to eradicate it. Just because somebody wants to get high with a joint, that's no reason to throw him in jail and take his damn belongings. He's just trying to get well. The mother - 's sick. That's why people drink beer when they come home from work. They're stressed out. That's all grass does. It's a big stress reliever.

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.

There's a freedom you begin to feel the closer you get to Austin, Texas.

Little things I should have said and done I just never took the time You were always on my mind

When I left Nashville I went to Texas because that's where I came from, and because I was playing in Texas a lot in different places. And I saw hippies and rednecks drinking beer together and smoking dope together and having a good time together and I knew it was possible to get all groups of people together - long hair, short hair, no hair - and music would bring them together.

When songs fall from the sky, all I can do is catch them before they hit the ground.

Indecision may or may not be our biggest problem.