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.
Courage is knowing it might hurt, and doing it anyway.
Stupidity is the same.
And that’s why life is hard.
If we think that the way we live is good enough, then we’re completely wrong. You have to be able to doubt so that you can see that it can be done differently.
In the past, we learned to cope with challenges ourselves. Today, a lot of people younger than me are not resistant to the vicissitudes and emotional challenges of life. If you’ve been told all your life that it’s the others who should spoil you and keep you free of problems, you’re probably a very sober person emotionally.
I have a small walk-in closet, and it can easily turn into a recycling museum, so I’ve also learned to sort out. When you are as old as I am, it is very important not to get sloppy and wear boring clothes.
What can you get for a dollar? You can get piss and paper
I desire nothing, but I want everything.
Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
Suicide is never the answer. You must outlive your enemies.
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.
In a rich man’s house, there is no place to spit in his face.
My mom and dad didn’t love each other, so they were always fighting.
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.
Wearing cheap clothes or driving an old car doesn’t make you broke. You got a family to feed not a community to impress.
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.
In the band, we only drink three drinks a day: two golden beers and a bottle of port.
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.
It may be that you can not buy love for money – but you can buy something similar to confusion.
Some of life’s big questions: Where do we come from, where are we going and where do we put the empty bottles?
I believe that if you just get up and go, life will open up to you.
I thought I was stone rich, so I poured money out with both hands – and now I owe right and left.
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.
The most memorable moments in life are the ones you never planned.
I wish I was a cow eating grass in a field. No rent. No job. No college. Just moo.
We never played hide and seek when we were children. No one ever bothered to look for us.