I love songs about horses, railroads, land, Judgment Day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation, home, salvation, death, pride, humor, piety, rebellion, patriotism, larceny, determination, tragedy, rowdiness, heartbreak and love. And Mother. And God.

Johnny Cash

Categorized in : Love Song Mother

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.

Johnny Cash

bullying mistake life

If you aren't gonna say exactly how and what you feel, you might as well not say anything at all.

Johnny Cash

wells say-anything might

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.

Johnny Cash

grief loss death

You have to be what you are. Whatever you are, you gotta be it.

Johnny Cash

truth

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.

Johnny Cash

appreciate trying country

Life is rough so you gotta be tough.

Johnny Cash

rough tough life-is

All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.

Johnny Cash

love-or-hate hate choices

There's a lot of things blamed on me that never happened. But then, there's a lot of things that I did that I never got caught at.

Johnny Cash

caught happened

Life is the question and life is the answer, and God is the reason and love is the way.

Johnny Cash

religious love-is religion

Life and love go on, let the music play.

Johnny Cash

old-wounds life-and-love play

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.

Johnny Cash

money worry world

I learn from my mistakes. It’s a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there’s no gain.

Johnny Cash

pain mistake way

it's good to know who hates you and it is good to be hated by the right people

Johnny Cash

hate knows people

I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion -- against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others' ideas.

Johnny Cash

mean people ideas

There is a spiritual side to me that goes real deep, but I confess right up front that I'm the biggest sinner of them all.

Johnny Cash

real spiritual sides

The Master of Lifes been good to me. He has given me strength to face past illnesses, and victory in the face of defeat. He has given me life and joy where other saw oblivion. He Has given new purpose to live for, new services to render and old wounds to heal.

Johnny Cash

life-and-love play past

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.

Johnny Cash

dont-give-up giving-up fall

All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love positivity and gratitude that things aren't worse or hate negativity and bitterness that things aren't better ...I choose love positivity and gratitude that things aren't worse.

Johnny Cash

gratitude positivity hate

Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.

Johnny Cash

cash-flow nice fighting

Burn my Flag and I will shoot you........but I'll shoot you with a lot of love, like a good American

Johnny Cash

flags military