Browse 126 quotes about Hygge.
“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.”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“Participants experience a 'social intimacy' and a basic 'trust' in the inclusiveness and good intentions of the other people present. Hygge cannot be achieved if there is disagreement and conflict in the group or if there is a sense of mistrust between people. Furthermore, situations characterised by hygge eschew graveness and seriousness. -Carsten Levisen”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“Happiness is quality time with friends and family. Incorporate higgle to everyday life to guarantee it.”
Source: The Danish Way of Parenting: What the Happiest People in the World Know About Raising Confident, Capable Kids
“An essential ingredient to hygge is the boundary that marks a place or delineates a moment - a fence, a circle of cushions or a stolen half hour.”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“...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.”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“Hygge is about having less, enjoying more; the pleasure of simply being.
It is generous and celebratory, a way to remember the importance of the simple act of living itself.”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“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.”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“Hygge is evoked in situations where there is nothing to accomplish but letting go to the present moment in a way that's more aligned to simple pleasure than deep reflection.”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“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.”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“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”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“Inside each of us are memories, fantasies and desires for home - a shelter waiting to be built, a place of peace to be revisited.”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“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.”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“There is a simple fidelity to the moment that we experience through hygge.
...we adjust our surroundings to guide our energy and desire.
Hygge pays attention to the concerns of the human spirit, turning us towards a manner of living that priorities simple pleasure, friendship and connection above consumption.”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“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”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“Material goods rarely alter our levels of happiness, unlike emotional experience. Having can never replace being. -Ilsa Crawford”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“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”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“To hold on to hygge, we learn to listen and to speak up. We hone the art of conversation and attempt to master an evenness of flow (an equal share of contributions and turns), and to maintain a sense of mutual involvement.
Those of us who are more introverted can relax in the knowledge that no one is expected to take centre stage. For an occasion to work well for everyone, the desire for hygge has to be balanced with a respect for individuality.”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“Hygge stems from a society that is focused on people rather than things.
It is linked to the language of love and to the idea that real wealth is not what we can accumulate but what we have to share.”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“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”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“...the problem is this: how do you measure wellbeing, happiness, tactility, trust, freedom, friendship, awareness, beauty, love, memory and so on? -Ilsa Crawford”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“The most common form of despair is not being who you are. -Soren Kierkegaard”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves - such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine. The ideals that have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face live cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness and Beauty. -Albert Einstein”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“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.”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and inextricably connected with the human person, and with the innermost nature of human feeling. -Christopher Alexander”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“Hygge is part of the language of human action and interaction all over the world. To hygge is a universal impetus revealed in the small rituals, gestures and daily experiences that unite and define us all.”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“Hygge helps us to communicate what it's like to be human; it is part of a global vocabulary that speaks to our humanity and addresses our basic human need to belong.
It's an old word for a new language that we are beginning to explore in order to share values common to us all.”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“I see the task of architecture as the defence of the authenticity of human experience. -Juhani Pallasmaa”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“Just living isn't enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower." -Hans Christian Anderson”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“Craft makes our homes more human. -Ilsa Crawford”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“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”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“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.”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“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”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“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.”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“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.”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“All really inhabited space bears the essence of the notion of home. -Gaston Bachelard”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“Without a home, everything is fragmentation. -John Berger”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“Mind, home and country are the interiorities of hygge.”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“To be in a situation characterised by hygge is to be in a state of pleasant wellbeing and security, with a relaxed frame of mind and an open enjoyment of the immediate situation in all its small pleasures - a state one achieves most often with close members of one's social network in a home-like setting. -Judith Friedman Hansen”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“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”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“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.”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused. -Proverb”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“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.”
Source: The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well
“A rich social life (measured by quality of experience rather than quantity of friends) contributes to good health, happiness and longevity. So many of us place value on hard work, measurable achievement and wealth, and often fail to set aside time to nurture our relationships and strengthen social ties. We make the mistake of believing that security is found in material things rather than people.”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“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.”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“He didn't remember, he didn't worry, he just was. -Tove Jansson”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“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.”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“...to create a sense of belonging takes dedicated time and space to listen and to care for each other, whether we are talking about the extended family, a nuclear family, a couple or friends. -Isla Crawford”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“We live and the things around us live, through daily care. -Ilsa Crawford”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“In quieting our ambition on occasion to concentrate on empathy and friendship we are still investing in ourselves and we diminish the likelihood of minor ailments, increase our lifespan and improve our capacity to fight disease.”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“When we are content, our daily actions are infused with a quiet satisfaction that we share with those around us.
We become aware of and responsible for other people's well being and they, in turn, for ours.
Hygge captures a way of being with other people, caring for them and ourselves.”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well