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.

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

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Indecision may or may not be our biggest problem.

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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?

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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.

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

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A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and the truth - that’s what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world.

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

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

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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.

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