Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you like what you do, you will succeed.
If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.
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.
Don’t prepare the path for the child, prepare the child for the path.
It is better to have clean nails than soil between the ears.
With great powers comes great responsibilities.
The more you grow, the more you realize that nothing is more important than sleep.
I can’t give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: Try to please everybody.
Grief is the price we pay for love.
Those who have never made a mistake have never tried anything new.
If someone says it’s raining and another person says it’s dry, it’s not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out the fucking window and find out which is true.
I am a bourgeois, but I am not a Left-woman. I was born a bourgeois, and I have always tried not to stand on a pedestal and say that I am a worker. That would be false talk. Nor during the many years when the red hirelings were around and held their noses at the thought of “Matador” and everything else I did. I’m not a peasant either. I was born a bourgeois, but that is why I can criticise the bourgeoisie and their shabby schemes, which I can easily see through.
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.
When you are extra strong, you have a special obligation to be sweet to others
You are only as happy as your least happy child-
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.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
No matter how many grains of gold I serve you, you keep eating oatmeal, and I can’t become my problem.
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.
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.
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.
I have no vices only desires.
Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I just sorta do ‘em all together, I guess.
Never stop being a good person because of bad people.