“The grace of a curve is an invitation to remain. We cannot break away from it without hoping to return. -Gaston Bachelard” — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. -Simone Weil” — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
“Life begins well. It begins enclosed, protected, all warm in the bosom of the house. -Gaston Bachelard” — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
“Things sing when they reach a certain degree of presence. -Thomas Moore” — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. -William Morris” — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
“All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses. -Friedrich Nietzsche” — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
“O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts. -John Keats” — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
“Being too preoccupied with how a gathering is taking shape, and making obvious attempts to take personal responsibility for the smooth running… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
“Material goods rarely alter our levels of happiness, unlike emotional experience. Having can never replace being. -Ilsa Crawford” — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
“Hygge is 'fragile' because the process, in a sense, is the goal. It comes through collaborative effort and can easily appear but… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
“There are three salient themes that run through any experience of hygge - interiority, contrast and atmosphere. They support and extend each… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
“How we need that security. How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
“...to hold twilight or watch it darken, describes the pleasure we take in pausing to observe as day slips into night. To… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
“To curl up belongs to the phenomenology of the verb to inhabit, and only those who have learned to do so can… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
“An essential ingredient to hygge is the boundary that marks a place or delineates a moment - a fence, a circle of… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
“When we are content, our daily actions are infused with a quiet satisfaction that we share with those around us. We become… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
“It makes sense that the everyday experience and practice of something like hygge would not be reserved only for Scandinavians, but shared… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
“Hygge gives us a framework to support our very human needs, desires and habits. To learn to hygge is to take practical… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
“The gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
“A rich social life (measured by quality of experience rather than quantity of friends) contributes to good health, happiness and longevity. So… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
“The word hygge has been sifted to the surface in recent years but the concept is not new. It is a practice… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
“I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves - such an ethical basis I call more proper for… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
“The way that we hygger and offer reassurance is unique to each of us according to the things to which we attach… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
“The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. -William Morris.” — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
“I see the task of architecture as the defence of the authenticity of human experience. -Juhani Pallasmaa” — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
“If you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger. -Kahlil Gibran” — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet. -Emily Dickinson” — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
“Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused. -Proverb” — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
“He didn't remember, he didn't worry, he just was. -Tove Jansson” — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
“It must be emphasized that hygge entails commitment to the present moment and a readiness to set distractions aside.” — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
“The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
“Hygge stems from a society that is focused on people rather than things. It is linked to the language of love and… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
“Hygge relates to social awareness, ways of communicating and ways of thinking about others. When we hygger, we acknowledge each other's traits… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
“Hygge is part of the language of human action and interaction all over the world. To hygge is a universal impetus revealed… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
“To hygge is to create a harmonious atmosphere, a feeling of warmth, a mood of contentment. Hygge is freely used to describe… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
“...to create a sense of belonging takes dedicated time and space to listen and to care for each other, whether we are… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
“The secret to hygge lies in paying attention to the rhythm of our daily lives, the people we choose to spend time… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
“Considering family togetherness seems promising for understanding hygge in its most basic form. When we refer to hygge, we are using the… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
“Memory is an imaginal constellation of past and present that generates a new experience. Memory is not the storing of the past,… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
