Life is not about waiting for the storm to subside. It’s about learning to dance in the rain.
Even when your life seems most monotonous, what you do is always of real value — and importance to your fellow men.
Some of life’s big questions: Where do we come from, where are we going and where do we put the empty bottles?
Wearing cheap clothes or driving an old car doesn’t make you broke. You got a family to feed not a community to impress.
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.
In a rich man’s house, there is no place to spit in his face.
If you live for weekends or vacations, your shit is broken.
The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions .
We never played hide and seek when we were children. No one ever bothered to look for us.
My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.
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.
Bitter? No, it’s something we drink.
I’m not where I want to be, but I’m proud I’m not where I used to be.
When you get as old as I am and no longer have a husband or dog, and the children have long since left home, you can sit and get a little wiser by thinking. Then it’s time to edit your memories and start looking at your life again. First come the regrets, then come the wrongs you’ve done, mistakes you’ve made – and all the things you can sit and brood over if you’re already in a bad mood. But you can also understand people and contexts in a new way.
Grief is the price we pay for love.
My articles were based on something I wanted to change. Everyone has the right to a decent life, and I thought it was important to give vulnerable people support and confidence. I was brought up to respect other people.
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.
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.
I may offend some people, but about 80% of people are idiots. At least when it comes to money.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
I thought I was stone rich, so I poured money out with both hands – and now I owe right and left.
Just because you’re unique, doesn’t mean you’re useful.
Don’t prepare the path for the child, prepare the child for the path.
All footballers are motivated by money – those who say otherwise are lying.
You start by saving up 100 million kroner and take it from there.