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.
If you’re a giver, remember to learn your limits. Because the takers don’t have any.
Der er kun én succes – at kunne tilbringe dit liv på din egen måde.
Courage is knowing it might hurt, and doing it anyway.
Stupidity is the same.
And that’s why life is hard.
If you don’t heal what hurt you, you’ll bleed on people who didn’t cut you.
Remember, when you point a finger at someone there are three more pointing back at you.
My family is so poor that we combined my father’s funeral with my 50th birthday.
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.
I wish I was a cow eating grass in a field. No rent. No job. No college. Just moo.
My parents have been there for me ever since I was 7 years old.
A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. This is where the rich use public transport.
Stay away from negative people, they have a problem for every solution
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.
In a rich man’s house, there is no place to spit in his face.
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.
Well but, everything has an end, and an earthworm it has two.
My mom and dad didn’t love each other, so they were always fighting.
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.
How many cars do I have? Do I also have to count the Volvos?
If you live for weekends or vacations, your shit is broken.
Don’t prepare the path for the child, prepare the child for the path.
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.
We never played hide and seek when we were children. No one ever bothered to look for us.
The most memorable moments in life are the ones you never planned.
Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers.