I thought I was stone rich, so I poured money out with both hands – and now I owe right and left.
Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
How many cars do I have? Do I also have to count the Volvos?
I don’t think you should think too much about the fact that time is passing and you’re not a teenager anymore. Then you just get plagued and get even more wrinkles and look even more grumpy and sad.
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.
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.
Why fall in love, when you can fall asleep
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 will never give in to old age until I get old. And I’m not old yet!
My family is so poor that we combined my father’s funeral with my 50th birthday.
If you’re a giver, remember to learn your limits. Because the takers don’t have any.
You won’t get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.
Never stop being a good person because of bad people.
If you ever find yourself cringing at something you did in the past, it means you have grown as a person.
Accepting your nose is the first step to self-love.
Courage is knowing it might hurt, and doing it anyway.
Stupidity is the same.
And that’s why life is hard.