Hygge Quotes

Home is an emotional state, a place in the imagination where feelings of security, belonging, placement, family, protection, memory and personal history abide. -Thomas Moore ~ Louisa Thomsen Brits

Less is more. -Robert Browning ~ Louisa Thomsen Brits

We cannot all do great things. But we can do small things with great love. -Mother Teresa ~ Louisa Thomsen Brits

All really inhabited space bears the essence of the notion of home. -Gaston Bachelard ~ Louisa Thomsen Brits

For years, home has been idealised as a refuge from the world, somewhere predictable and unchanging. But home isn't just where we go to escape the world. Home is how we inhabit the world. Meaning comes from connection and a willingness to pay attention to the particulars of our lives, from the things we choose to use to our daily rituals and shared activities. ~ Louisa Thomsen Brits

Every repast can have soul and can be enchanting; it asks for only a small degree of mindfulness and a habit of doing things with care and imagination. -Thomas Moore ~ Louisa Thomsen Brits

Without a home, everything is fragmentation. -John Berger ~ Louisa Thomsen Brits

We all hygger: gathered around a table for a shared meal or beside a fire on a dark night, when we sit in the corner of our local cafe or wrap ourselves in a blanket at the end of a day on the beach.
Lying spoons, baking in a warm kitchen, bathing by candlelight, being alone in bed with a hot water bottle and a good book - these are all ways to hygge.
Hygge draws meaning from the fabric of ordinary living.
It'a a way of acknowledging the sacred in the secular, of giving something ordinary a special context, spirit and warmth and taking time to make it extraordinary. ~ Louisa Thomsen Brits

Hygge offers space for both reverie and relatedness. The heat of an open fire draws us close. Its shadow gives us a place to hide and softens our gaze. ~ Louisa Thomsen Brits

In our deeds we can structure our lives so that the simple things that we do everyday, from bathing to cooking, have resonance and ritual. -Ilsa Crawford ~ Louisa Thomsen Brits

At a time of global instability we have become distanced from each other and the environment.
We have lost the immediacy, comfort and truthfulness of the literal and actual, and need to find alternative ways to consume and connect.
Hygge describes a way of being that introduces humanity and warmth in our homes, schools, workplaces, cities and nations. ~ Louisa Thomsen Brits

Just living isn't enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower." -Hans Christian Anderson ~ Louisa Thomsen Brits

...how a familiar room slowly changes colour as morning arrives. ~ Louisa Thomsen Brits

In paying attention to our wellbeing, we address the needs of our environment - the society that we live in and our planet. Sustainability depends on community - when we learn to be happily reliant on each other, we're less likely to turn to material consumption to meet our emotional needs. ~ Louisa Thomsen Brits

go ahead and make those changes. But How On Earth Do You Do This? Well, there are a number of approaches that work and it is certainly just the case of you spending some time figuring out which option is going to be best for you. Anyway, these are just some great ideas that could very well be worth exploring for you in your own life. 1. Understand what hygge means to you personally The first thing is to really understand what hygge means to you on a personal level. This is key because it ~ Freja Petersen

Hygge gives us a framework to support our very human needs, desires and habits. To learn to hygge is to take practical steps to evoke it - to shelter, cluster, enclose, embrace, comfort and warm ourselves and each other. Cultivating the habits of balance, moderation, care and observance will then comfortably entire more hygge in our daily lives. ~ Louisa Thomsen Brits

Bryson says we have no word for the Danish hygge, then goes on to tell us exactly what it means: "instantly satisfying and cozy" (though ~ Robert Lane Greene

We are social creatures, and the importance of this is clearly seen when one compares the satisfaction people feel in relationships with their overall satisfaction with life. The most important social relationships are close relationships in which you experience things together with others, and experience being understood; where you share thoughts and feelings, and both give and receive support. In one word: hygge. ~ Meik Wiking

We still carry within us, in a small warm spot, the idea of home. Home as a safe place, a loving place and a creative place. Place of comfort and privacy. Place where we can explore our inner life. -Isla Crawford ~ Louisa Thomsen Brits

But one of the main reasons why Denmark does so well in international happiness surveys is the welfare state, as it reduces uncertainty, worries and stress in the population. You can say that Denmark is the happiest country in the world or you can say that Denmark is the least unhappy country in the world. The welfare state is really good (not perfect, but good) at reducing extreme unhappiness. Universal and free health care, free university education and relatively generous unemployment benefits go a long way towards reducing unhappiness. ~ Meik Wiking

Life begins well. It begins enclosed, protected, all warm in the bosom of the house. -Gaston Bachelard ~ Louisa Thomsen Brits

Mind, home and country are the interiorities of hygge. ~ Louisa Thomsen Brits

Although home still represents stability in an unstable world, we're beginning to see that home can be how we live, a situation that we create and recreate.
Home is less attached to bricks and mortar and more about the lives we lead, the ways that we connect with each other, the communities we build.
Home is a state of mind, something we make for ourselves wherever we can.
Hygge is the home we make in the flux and flow of our lives. ~ Louisa Thomsen Brits

Hygge happens when we commit to the pleasure of the present moment in its simplicity.
It's there in the things we do that give everyday life value and meaning, that comfort us, make us feel at home, rooted and generous. ~ Louisa Thomsen Brits

Hygge is a state of being you experience if you are at peace with yourself, your spouse, the tax authorities and your inner organs. ~ Tove Ditlevsen

At the heart of hygge is a willingness to set aside time for simply being with people, and, ideally, having all the time in the world for them. Hygge is a vehicle for showing that we care. It's a way of paying attention to our children or partners and friends in the messy reality of the here and now, and putting down the distractions that pull us in different directions. So many of us are drawn to a virtual world of connectivity. Hygge isn't about a life without technology, but it asks us to balance our commitments and remember the value of human interaction, conversation and physical intimacy. It liberates us to fully inhabit the moment without feeling compelled to record it. ~ Louisa Thomsen Brits

When we hygger, we frame the moment, give it our full attention, savour and hold it, in an awareness that the moment will pass.
We feel how one moment becomes layered on to the next; past and present mingled together - everything falling into place, into one accord. ~ Louisa Thomsen Brits

Considering family togetherness seems promising for understanding hygge in its most basic form. When we refer to hygge, we are using the concept of home and family to think with. -Jeppe Trolle Linnet ~ Louisa Thomsen Brits

Material goods rarely alter our levels of happiness, unlike emotional experience. Having can never replace being. -Ilsa Crawford ~ Louisa Thomsen Brits

...to hold twilight or watch it darken, describes the pleasure we take in pausing to observe as day slips into night.
To stand at our window, wrapped in the half-dark and watch the day disappear... is a moment of hygge. ~ Louisa Thomsen Brits

We don't hygge to be content, we find contentment in hygge. Hygge is... about pleasure, presence and participation.
It's... the understanding that if we are to wholeheartedly participate in life, we are entitled to small islands of calm. ~ Louisa Thomsen Brits

It's not mindfulness, it's we-fullness-the Danish art of Hygge ~ Jessica Joelle Alexander

Hygge is about appreciating the simple pleasures in life and can be achived on a shoestring budget. ~ Meik Wiking

Hygge relies on us finding a balance between self-containment and wholehearted participation, personal liberty and awareness of the needs of others. It connotes a caring, civilised mode of behaviour that builds companionable ease and trust. ~ Louisa Thomsen Brits

The Danish phenomenon "hygge" is about creating an atmosphere that is warm, relaxed, friendly, close, loving, comfortable and welcoming - a state of feeling connected and loved. ~ Iben Dissing Sandahl

Hygge" is like a good hug - but without the physical contact. ~ Iben Dissing Sandahl

You cannot buy the right atmosphere or a sense of togetherness. You cannot hygge if you are in a hurry or stressed out, and the art of creating intimacy cannot be bought by anything but time, interest and engagement in the people around you. ~ Meik Wiking

The closest you will ever come to seeing vampires burnt by daylight is by inviting a group of Danes for a hygge dinner and then placing them under a 5,000K fluorescent light tube. At first, they will squint, trying to examine the torture device you have placed in the ceiling. Then, as dinner begins, observe how they will move uncomfortably around in their chairs, compulsively scratching and trying to suppress twitches. ~ Meik Wiking

He who knows contentment is rich. -Lao Tzu ~ Louisa Thomsen Brits

This is hygge. The more it sets the here and now apart from the tough realities of the outside world, the more valuable it becomes. ~ Meik Wiking

Hygge is our awareness of the scale of our existence in contrast to the immensity of life. It is our sense of intimacy and encounter with each other and with the creaturely world around us. It is the presence of nature calling us back to the present moment, calling us home. ~ Louisa Thomsen Brits

The rule of thumb is: the lower the temperature of the light, the more hygge. A camera flash is around 5,500 Kelvin (K), fluorescent tubes are 5,000K, incandescent lamps 3,000K, while sunsets and wood and candle flames are about 1,800K. That is your hygge sweet spot. The ~ Meik Wiking