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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Love is like a dying ember, only memories remain.

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

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 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 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.

I got in at 2 with a 10, and woke up at 10 with a 2.

Freedom is control in your own life.

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.

If you start out looking at somebody, wondering whether he's good or bad, I think you're starting out in the wrong direction. I think we're all good and we're all bad.

Do something bad a thousand times and it's no big deal. Everyone just goes, "Willie f - up again."

Waylon Jennings and I had a lot of fun recording together.

It's an ongoing problem, an ongoing situation, life is. It's just life, and it never stops and it never will. You just be thankful for what you've got, and move on.

If you've made your own hell, then only you have the power to escape it.

What has changed is that nothing has changed... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else.

Oh, I think it's definitely spiritual. All music is. I think it's maybe one of the highest forms of spirituality.

When evolution has been outlawed, only the outlaws will evolve.

You can't hang a man for shooting a woman who was trying to steal his horse.

I'm drowning in whiskey river.

A frozen river is not a dry one, it's just a still river on the surface but is still moving, and so am my winter writing.