Willie Nelson - Life Quotes

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

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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.

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It didn't take long for me to realize that writing, performing and singing songs was what I was meant to do, but what other people thought was an entirely different issue. If I had to break it down, I'd say about 99 percent of the people in my life were telling me I wasn't going to make it. All that adversity and lack of faith ended up just strengthening my own convictions. All that negativity really helped me in the end, because there's no better inspiration for doing something than having somebody say that you can't do it.

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

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Jokes help pass the time on the road and they help get through life. You got to laugh. I always loved a good joke.

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If I had the chance to do it all over again, I'd do it exactly the same. Wrong or right, it's my life. Sounds like a song, doesn't it?

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

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