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“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.”

Life Pleasure Comfort Simplicity Value Commit Generous Present Moment Hygge

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“How we need that security. How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this. I need someone to pour myself into. -Sylvia Plath”

Soul Security Trust Confidence Comfort Warm Need Rest Hygge Someone

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“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”

Love Life Home Comfort Safe Warm Explore Within Hygge Carry

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“Home should be a warm, liveable place that is alive, a place to please the eye and soothe the senses in scale, curves, colour, variety, pattern and texture. -Josef Frank”

Home Alive Comfort Please Warm Senses Hygge Soothe Livable

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“Hygge is a practice related to how we create and preserve meaning in the places we inhabit, how we make homes that comfort us and bring us together. ...then we begin to really inhabit a place or a moment in time and open ourselves to what it has to give.”

Home Together Practice Comfort Meaning Moment Create Hygge Preserve Inhabit

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“The secret to hygge lies in paying attention to the rhythm of our daily lives, the people we choose to spend time with, the things we use and the activities we undertake that give life value and meaning.”

People Life Time Secret Attention Comfort Value Meaning Hygge

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“O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts. -John Keats”

Life Comfort Thoughts Sensations Touch Hygge

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“We do not remember days, we remember moments. -Cesare Pavese”

Moments Remember Comfort Memory Hygge

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“The grace of a curve is an invitation to remain. We cannot break away from it without hoping to return. -Gaston Bachelard”

Hope Grace Return Comfort Senses Hygge Invitation Remain Curve

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“All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses. -Friedrich Nietzsche”

Truth Comfort Conscience Evidence Good Senses Touch Credible Hygge

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“Nothing awakens a reminiscence like an odour. -Victor Hugo”

Comfort Senses Scent Awaken Hygge Reminiscence Odour

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“Things sing when they reach a certain degree of presence. -Thomas Moore”

Comfort Presence Hygge

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“Memory is an imaginal constellation of past and present that generates a new experience. Memory is not the storing of the past, but the storying of the present. -Lynda Sexson”

Past Comfort Experience Memory Story Present Hygge

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“In its aspect of comfort, hygge involves a sense of wellbeing which encourages relaxation and peacefulness. It excludes by definition a distracted or preoccupied state of mind: hygge is commitment par excellence to the present moment in its basics. In the words of Hartmann-Petersen, 'Hygge rushes in of itself as soon as one is carefree.' -Judith Friedman Hansen”

Peace Comfort Senses Commit Relax Present Moment Wellbeing Hygge Carefree

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“The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. -William Morris.”

Life Interest Secret Comfort Everyday Happy Genuine Hygge Elevate

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“We cannot all do great things. But we can do small things with great love. -Mother Teresa”

Love Comfort Great Small Hygge

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“Hygge involves comfort, cosiness, a sense of wellbeing, and a relaxed frame of mind. -Judith Friedman Hansen”

Mind Comfort Relax Wellbeing Hygge Cosy

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“The way that we hygger and offer reassurance is unique to each of us according to the things to which we attach most meaning. Some of us nourish others by cooking. Some offer comfort in conversation or good-natured humour. Others are adept at creating an easy ambience through which hygge flows.”

Humour Comfort Unique Meaning Create Hygge Ambience Nourish Attach Reassure

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“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.”

People Humanity Environment Comfort Warmth Being Truthfulness Global Hygge Connect

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