Why fall in love, when you can fall asleep
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
Sometimes it’s strange being me. I travel the world meeting people, I’m surrounded with friends and my life is full, but all the time I am confronted by a young man I have nothing in common with. He is me, but he is not me now. In fact I have been me now for longer than I was him, but no one wants to know about me.
I only earn 11 kroner per trip I sell, but it also becomes a part when I sell a million trips a year.
I’m not wise, but the beginnings of wisdom are there; it’s like relaxing into – and accepting – things.
They say it’s the white man I should fear, but it’s my own kind doing all the killing here.
There’s one thing worse than being boring. It is to be immoral
It is better to be one of those who sometimes go wrong than one of those who do not go at all.
Grief is the price we pay for love.
If it’s dancing, or anything else in life my darling, that matters to you, then don’t let anything or anyone stop you.
Our modern world places such heavy demands on our time and attention that the need to remember our responsibilities to others is greater than ever.
You can beat 40 scholars with one fact, but you cannot beat one idiot with 40 facts.
Man, I was tame compared to what they do now. Are you kidding? I didn’t do anything but just jiggle.
It’s worth remembering that it is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change.
The more you grow, the more you realize that nothing is more important than sleep.
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.
All warfare is based on deception.
I had to go through so horribly much before I found out to skip where the fence is lowest.
You may have had fun at the time teasing, but in fact it wasn’t much fun to be teased. But I thank you, somewhere, for having done it, because it made me take up something that I love to this day – and that no one, then or now, can take me away from.
I’m attracted to myths.
Throughout my life, the message and teachings of Christ have been my guide and in them I find hope. It is my heartfelt prayer that you will continue to be sustained by your faith in times of trial and encouraged by hope in times of despair.
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.
If you live for weekends or vacations, your shit is broken.
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.