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.
Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.
When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.
Of course, I have nothing against the language changing, but there must be reasonableness in it, so that it does not become a mere gas can. On the other hand, new words are sometimes added that I wouldn’t do without – for example, “smug”. It’s my new favorite word. It’s a wonderfully oily word, a precise word that covers a certain type of person with a high degree of self-confidence in their own abilities.
Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
You are only as happy as your least happy child-
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.
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.
Never stop being a good person because of bad people.
It is better to be one of those who sometimes go wrong than one of those who do not go at all.
If a man says you’re ugly, he’s just mean. If a woman says you’re ugly, she’s just jealous. If a kid says you’re ugly, you’re ugly.
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.
There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking.
If it’s dancing, or anything else in life my darling, that matters to you, then don’t let anything or anyone stop you.
I like Danish humour – I just wish you had more of it.
When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving, him a liar: you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say.
Everything sounds deep when you don’t read books.
I dont do drugs. I am drugs.
The more you grow, the more you realize that nothing is more important than sleep.
You won’t get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.
My legacy is that I stayed the course… from start to finish because I believed in something inside of me.
If the heroes run and hide, who will stay and fight?
Instead of buying your children all the things you never had, you should teach them all the things you were never taught. Material wears out but knowledge stays.
I can’t give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: Try to please everybody.