Browse 126 quotes about Hygge.
“Pure love and possibility, aka Hygge, moves plasmic aetheric space into the fire, air, water, earth, and metal elements in an evolving cycle.”
Source: Reign: 16 secrets from 6 Queens to rule your world with clarity, connection & sovereignty
“Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“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.”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts. -John Keats”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“Happiness is quality time with friends and family. Incorporate hygge into everyday life.”
Source: The Danish Way of Parenting: What the Happiest People in the World Know About Raising Confident, Capable Kids
“The flip side of an experience of enjoyment is the certainty that it won't last forever, Today's moment of hygge will be tomorrow's memory. With that awareness, we give ourselves over to the moment more completely.”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet. -Emily Dickinson”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“Hygge is a quality of presence and an experience of togetherness. It is a feeling of being warm, safe, comforted and sheltered.
Hygge is an experience of selfhood and communion with people and places that anchors and affirms us, gives us courage and consolation.
To hygge is to invite intimacy and connection. It's a feeling of engagement and relatedness, of belonging to the moment and to each other.
Hygge is a sense of abundance and contentment.
Hygge is about being not having.”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. -Ludwig Wittgenstein”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“Because interiority focuses on the inside-outside aspect of hygge, it introduces the important theme of contrast. When we hygger there is a sense of distance between us and the outside world, a contrast between the feeling that we are at the still axis of a moment of pleasure and our awareness of ever-moving life around us.
Our experience of contrast is heightened by spatial, temporal and social conditions - inside versus outside, shelter versus exposure, warm versus cold, day versus night, light versus shadow, stillness versus activity, indulgence versus restraint, relaxation versus work, independence versus society, equality versus hierarchy, peace versus conflict.”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. -Annie Dillard”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. -Simone Weil”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“I felt it shelter to speak to you. -Emily Dickinson”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. -William Morris”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“Hyggelige as the Danes may be, there is one serious drawback to being crazy about candles: the soot. Studies show that lighting just one candle fills the air with more microparticles than traffic in a busy street.
A study undertaken by the Danish Building Research Institute showed that candles shed more particles indoors than either cigarettes or cooking. Despite Denmark being a highly regulated country, we have yet to see warning labels on candles. Nobody messes with the hygge fanatics.”
Source: The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well
“Getting outside in winter is essential. The belief that we can't enjoy ourselves outdoors is largely responsible for the idea that winter is limiting; this perspective makes the world feel out of reach. But this view is erroneous and self-fulfilling. If we remain cooped up, we will feel winter's limitations, and our mood will drop, no matter how hygge we make it inside.”
Source: How to Winter: Harness Your Mindset to Thrive on Cold, Dark, or Difficult Days
“Instead of it being smart to own something, it has become smart to know something.”
Source: Hygge: The Danish Art of Happiness
“L’arte danese dell’hygge consiste nell’assaporare i semplici piaceri quotidiani e godersi i momenti di quiete, mentre lo svedese lagom (pronunciato lah-gom) definisce la scelta di uno stile di vita che ruota attorno a equilibrio, semplicità , rilassatezza e serenità .”
Source: The Little Book of Lagom: How to Balance Your Life the Swedish Way
“Sourdough is basically an edible Tamagotchi.”
Source: The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well
“Feeling connected to others gives meaning and purpose to our lives.”
Source: The Danish Way of Parenting: What the Happiest People in the World Know About Raising Confident, Capable Kids
“What a splendid piece of furniture an armchair is, of utmost importance and usefulness to a contemplative man. During those long winter evenings, it is often sweet and always advisable to stretch out luxuriously in one, far from the din of crowds. A good fire, a few books, some quills - what excellent antidotes to boredom!”
Source: Voyage Around My Room: Selected Works of Xavier de Maistre
“One must do what one can to keep warm in the autumn months.”
Source: In Limbo
“Hygge este potolit, rustic si domol.”
“I’m caring enough about me to enjoy the simple pleasures I’ve planned for during this dark season so I can approach my days with a sense of abundance rather than scarcity.”
Source: Holy Hygge: Creating a Place for People to Gather and the Gospel to Grow
“Our words and language shape our hopes and dreams for the future - and our dreams for the future shape how we act today”
Source: The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well
“Our language reflects our world. We give the things we see - things that matter - names.”
Source: The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well
“There, in the warmth of the sun, the protection of the woods, and with the lake as my constant companion, I was free to be my true self. In this place, grades and appearances were not measured, and love was not conditional. I
was unshackled from the expectations of others, my spirit as light as the breeze off the lake. I became the golden girl reborn.”
Source: Poppy and Pa
“When we reached The Point, we would first feel the slimy, rough rock below our bellies, as if being lifted on the back of a whale. We would pull ourselves along the rock’s massive underwater surface, careful to not graze our hands or knees, then climb up above the water, standing tall beside the tower of rocks. We spent the rest of our time sliding down its slippery backside, over and over again—our own natural playground.”
Source: Poppy and Pa
“Late afternoons were for resting in the hammock that hung between the Three Sisters, my favourite trio of birch trees, a book resting on my chest. Other days, I would follow my imagination around our property, my bare feet sinking into pillows of soft moss and rough lichens as I climbed up rock faces or followed a path of fallen pine needles. I would name each plant and tree around me as I filled my pockets with acorns, my soles hardened by the end of the summer.”
Source: Poppy and Pa
“If you want to be truly hygge, you need to own a pair of comfy sweatpants for sure.”
Source: Hygge Habits: Embrace Hygge For More Joy And Happiness In Life
“He who knows contentment is rich. -Lao Tzu”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“If you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger. -Kahlil Gibran”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“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.”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“We do not remember days, we remember moments. -Cesare Pavese”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“...how a familiar room slowly changes colour as morning arrives.”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“The grace of a curve is an invitation to remain. We cannot break away from it without hoping to return. -Gaston Bachelard”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“To a great extent, friluftsliv is made possible by the Swedish common law of allemansratten (the right of public access), which grants anybody the right to walk, ride a bike or horse, ski, pick berries, or camp anywhere on private land, except for the part that immediately surrounds a private dwelling. In short, that means you can pick mushrooms and flowers, as well as light a campfire and pitch a tent, in somebody else's woods, but not right in front of their house... allemansratten relies on an honor system that can simply be summed up with the phrase "Do not disturb, do not destroy," and trusts that people will use their common sense.”
“Less is more. -Robert Browning”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“In acceptance of the limitations that life imposes on us and in knowing that we can choose our attitude in any given circumstance and make the best of our situation, we throw open the window to hygge.”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“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.”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses. -Friedrich Nietzsche”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“Nothing awakens a reminiscence like an odour. -Victor Hugo”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own creations. -Oscar Wilde”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations. -Oscar Wilde”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“The things of this world are vessels, entrances for stories; when we touch them or tumble into them, we fall into their labyrinthine resonances. -Lynda Sexson”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“Things sing when they reach a certain degree of presence. -Thomas Moore”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“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”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“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”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“It is in the shelter of each other that the people live. -Irish proverb”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“Architecture is about the understanding of the world and turning it into a more meaningful and humane place. -Juhani Pallasmaa”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well