Wearing unbranded and cheap clothes does not mean you are poor. Remember you have a family to feed, not a community to impress.
It may be that you can not buy love for money – but you can buy something similar to confusion.
I desire nothing, but I want everything.
I am completely overwhelmed. It’s a good thing you don’t turn 100 every day. Even though I don’t have that much energy anymore, I still want to take a few more years.
And what happens when you go away? When life’s shirt gets too short? Where is the common thread? You have to become something!
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.
That’s one of the worst things about getting old. That people allow themselves to die before you.
Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
I thought I was stone rich, so I poured money out with both hands – and now I owe right and left.
People think my life has been hard, but I think it’s been a wonderful journey. The older you get, the more you realize that it’s not about what happens, but how you deal with it.
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.
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.
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.
If one is not happy with oneself, then why should others be?
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.
Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
Life is not about waiting for the storm to subside. It’s about learning to dance in the rain.
I wish I was a cow eating grass in a field. No rent. No job. No college. Just moo.
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.
If you’re a giver, remember to learn your limits. Because the takers don’t have any.
Stay away from negative people, they have a problem for every solution
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.
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.