It is only when a mosquito lands on your testicles that you realize that there is always a way to solve problems without using violence.
Even when your life seems most monotonous, what you do is always of real value — and importance to your fellow men.
What can you get for a dollar? You can get piss and paper
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 family is so poor that we combined my father’s funeral with my 50th birthday.
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.
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.
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.
Suicide is never the answer. You must outlive your enemies.
Love is like a fart. If you have to force it, itøs probably crap.
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.
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.
Being a rock star isn’t all fun and games. That’s a lot of money, too.
Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
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.
Bitter? No, it’s something we drink.
Over the years, those who have seemed to me to be the most happy, contented and fulfilled have always been the people who have lived the most outgoing and unselfish lives.
I’m not where I want to be, but I’m proud I’m not where I used to be.
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.
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.
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.
That’s one of the worst things about getting old. That people allow themselves to die before you.
Money is not everything, only about 87.5 percent