“All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate. I choose love.”
— Johnny Cash
“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.”
“Life is rough so you gotta be tough.”
“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.”
“What have I become, my sweetest friend. Everyone I know goes away, in the end.”
“We’re all in this together if we’re in it at all.”
“My arms are too short to box with God.”
“As sure as God made black and white, what’s done in the dark will be brought to the light.”
“Because you’re mine, I walk the line.”
“Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.”
“I learn from my mistakes. It’s a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there’s no gain.”
“Life and love go on, let the music play.”
“I don’t give up because I don’t give up. I don’t believe in it.”
“When God forgave me, I figured I’d better do it too.”
“Flesh and blood needs flesh and blood, and you're the one I need.”
“I remember everything What have I become? My sweetest friend? E veryone I know goes away in the end You could have it all My empire of dirt I will let you down I will make you hurt.”
“The more I learn, the more excited I get.”
“I just hope and pray I can die with my boots on.”
“If 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.”
“All music comes from God.”
“I wear my crown of thorns on my liars chair, full of broken thoughts I cannot repair, beneath the stain of time the feelings disappears. What have I become, my sweetest of friends?”
“I keep a close watch on this heart of mine I keep my eyes wide open all the time I keep the ends out for the tie that binds Because you’re mine, I walk the line.”
“Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.”
“Get rhythm when you get the blues.”
“A rose looks grey at midnight, but the flame is just asleep. And steel is strong because it knows the hammer and white heat.”
“The beast in me Is caged by frail and fragile bars.”
“I love the freedoms we got in this country, I appreciate your freedom to burn your flag if you want to, but I really appreciate my right to bear arms so I can shoot you if you try to burn mine.”
“Of travel I’ve had my share, man, I’ve been everywhere.”
“I don’t like it, but I guess things happen that way.”
“I have tried drugs and a little of everything else, and there is nothing in the world more soul-satisfying than having the kingdom of God building inside you and growing.”
“It takes a real man to live for God-a lot more man than to live for the devil, you know? If you really want to live right these days, you gotta be tough.”
“If you aren’t gonna say exactly how and what you feel, you might as well not say anything at all.”
“For you I know I’d even try to turn the tide.”
“I came to believe in a power much higher than I.”
“The gospel of Christ must always be an open door with a welcome sign for all.”
“Life is the question and life is the answer, and God is the reason and love is the way.”
“When you sing, you pray twice.”
“Don’t take voice lessons. Do it your way.”
“Loneliness is emptiness, but happiness is you.”
“Some gal would giggle and I’d get red, and some guy’d laugh and I’d bust his head. I tell ya, life ain’t easy for a boy named Sue.”
“So we raise her up every morning, we take her down every night, we don’t let her touch the ground and we fold her up right. On second thought, I do like to brag ’cause I’m mighty proud of the Ragged Old Flag.”
“I wear black for those who never read or listen to the words that Jesus said, about the road to happiness, through love and charity.”
“I’m thankful for the sea breeze that feels so good right now, and the scent of jasmine when the sun starts going down.”
“Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.”
“No matter how much you’ve sinned, no matter how much you’ve stumbled, no matter how much you fall, no matter how far you’ve got from God, don’t give up. You can still be redeemed. As someone says, keep the faith.”
“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.”
“Those that have lived longer than us always have something to teach us, that we can take with us for the rest of our lives.”
“Inside the walls of a prison my body may be, but my Lord has set my soul free.”
“Deep in the heart of the infinite darkness, a tiny blue marble is spinning through space. Born in the splendor of God’s holy vision, and sliding away like a tear down his face.”
“The battle against the dark one and the clinging to the right one is what my life is about.”
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