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.
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.
Suicide is never the answer. You must outlive your enemies.
Why fall in love, when you can fall asleep
If you live for weekends or vacations, your shit is broken.
Courage is knowing it might hurt, and doing it anyway.
Stupidity is the same.
And that’s why life is hard.
Sometimes you need to let go of everything – cleanse yourself. If you’re unhappy with something… whatever it is that’s dragging you down, get rid of it. Because you’ll find that when you’re free, your true creativity, your true self, comes out.
In a rich man’s house, there is no place to spit in his face.
The more you grow, the more you realize that nothing is more important than sleep.
Der er kun én succes – at kunne tilbringe dit liv på din egen måde.
I can’t give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: Try to please everybody.
With great powers comes great responsibilities.
I had to go through so horribly much before I found out to skip where the fence is lowest.
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.
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.
Satire is meant to ridicule power. If you are laughing at people who are hurting, it’s not satire, it’s bullying.
If you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.
If someone offers you an amazing opportunity and you’re not sure you can do it, say yes – then learn how to do it later.
Sometimes, the wrong train takes you to the right station.
If they want to be with sour and awkward people during their vacation, well, then they should probably choose another travel agency.
It’s – sorry my French – some damn nonsense. There are certainly also pig farmers and cattle farmers who go in clean boots and clothes. You will probably find most of them, so that is why it is nonsense.
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.
Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
If one is not happy with oneself, then why should others be?
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.