The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions .
You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep rereading the last one.
It may be that you can not buy love for money – but you can buy something similar to confusion.
When you get as old as I am and no longer have a husband or dog, and the children have long since left home, you can sit and get a little wiser by thinking. Then it’s time to edit your memories and start looking at your life again. First come the regrets, then come the wrongs you’ve done, mistakes you’ve made – and all the things you can sit and brood over if you’re already in a bad mood. But you can also understand people and contexts in a new way.
Each day is a new beginning, I know that the only way to live my life is to try to do what is right, to take the long view, to give of my best in all that the day brings, and to put my trust in God.
Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers.
In a rich man’s house, there is no place to spit in his face.
The pill is one of the biggest advances I’ve seen.
I only earn 11 kroner per trip I sell, but it also becomes a part when I sell a million trips a year.
Accepting your nose is the first step to self-love.
At my age, you think about the afterlife. I’m mostly inclined to think there’s nothing there, but sometimes I can’t help but let my imagination run wild. My good friend Ulla Steen says she believes that all of us who like each other meet in the big angel bar where we are expected. I see myself arriving at the angel bar, and there’s my father, my husband and my son, and one of them says: “There’s Lise. Now we are four again for a l’hombre.
I’ve never worried about my color. I never had the black thing. If the whole world was like this, maybe there would be more harmony and love. Maybe it is. I don’t have a problem with being black in a white country or being with my people.
It is only when a mosquito lands on your testicles that you realize that there is always a way to solve problems without using violence.
An amazing breathlessness arises because we fill our lives with emptiness and Facebook. In a discussion about the empty calories of Facebook, someone close to me said with great seriousness: “I have 190 friends on Facebook.” Then I replied: “Yes, but hardly one of them will pick up your coffin the day you leave here.” Why not use the time for some fewer and real friends in the real world.
I’ve never given myself a lot of credit because of my relationship with Ike. I was just happy when I started to like myself – when I got divorced and took control of my life.
If you’re a giver, remember to learn your limits. Because the takers don’t have any.
I’m not where I want to be, but I’m proud I’m not where I used to be.
I’d say it’s been my biggest problem all my life.. it’s money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.
People ask if it is difficult to play while drunk. It’s not, as long as you make sure you are when you practice.
Love is like a fart. If you have to force it, itøs probably crap.
I don’t think you should think too much about the fact that time is passing and you’re not a teenager anymore. Then you just get plagued and get even more wrinkles and look even more grumpy and sad.
Life is like a game of chess. I don’t know how to play chess.
How many cars do I have? Do I also have to count the Volvos?
If you ever find yourself cringing at something you did in the past, it means you have grown as a person.
You won’t get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.