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’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.
My biggest beauty secret is to be happy with myself. I don’t use special creams or treatments – I use a little bit of everything. It’s a mistake to think you are what you put on yourself. I think a lot of how you look has to do with how you feel about yourself and your life. Happiness is the secret of beauty.
My articles were based on something I wanted to change. Everyone has the right to a decent life, and I thought it was important to give vulnerable people support and confidence. I was brought up to respect other people.
I only earn 11 kroner per trip I sell, but it also becomes a part when I sell a million trips a year.
The hardest thing about doing good business is avoiding doing the bad ones.
You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep rereading the last one.
Some of life’s big questions: Where do we come from, where are we going and where do we put the empty bottles?
If you ever find yourself cringing at something you did in the past, it means you have grown as a person.
I have an agreement with Lilholt and Olsen that we always play a Dalton song when we’re out on a solo tour, as it costs 280 kroner in Koda tax. It’s not much, but for them it’s a lot.
Stay away from negative people, they have a problem for every solution
Do you ever miss yourself? The person you were before you had your first heartbreak or before you got betrayed by a person you trusted? I do.
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.
Bitter? No, it’s something we drink.
Remember, when you point a finger at someone there are three more pointing back at you.
If you’re a giver, remember to learn your limits. Because the takers don’t have any.
Money is not everything, only about 87.5 percent
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
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 thought I was stone rich, so I poured money out with both hands – and now I owe right and left.
Wearing cheap clothes or driving an old car doesn’t make you broke. You got a family to feed not a community to impress.
Take from the poor and give to the rich – and the land will become richer. Take from the rich, and give to the poor – and the land will become poorer. The poor have it in them to scrape the money away.
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.
My parents have been there for me ever since I was 7 years old.
Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.