“Nothing awakens a reminiscence like an odour. -Victor Hugo” — Louisa Thomsen Brits Awaken Copy Share Image
“Mind, home and country are the interiorities of hygge.” — Louisa Thomsen Brits Country Copy Share Image
“Without a home, everything is fragmentation. -John Berger” — Louisa Thomsen Brits Everything Copy Share Image
“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 Comfort Copy Share Image
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. -Simone Weil” — Louisa Thomsen Brits Attention Copy Share Image
“The military failure of the old empire was subsequently not mourned as an outward loss but celebrated as an inward gain.” — Louisa Thomsen Brits Failure Copy Share Image
“The pleasure is found in living hygge, not curating it, in the experience of the journey, not owning the map.” — Louisa Thomsen Brits Journey Copy Share Image
“Life begins well. It begins enclosed, protected, all warm in the bosom of the house. -Gaston Bachelard” — Louisa Thomsen Brits Beginning Copy Share Image
“Things sing when they reach a certain degree of presence. -Thomas Moore” — Louisa Thomsen Brits Comfort Copy Share Image
“We live and the things around us live, through daily care. -Ilsa Crawford” — Louisa Thomsen Brits Care Copy Share Image
“We cannot all do great things. But we can do small things with great love. -Mother Teresa” — Louisa Thomsen Brits Comfort Copy Share Image
“In our overstretched, complex lives, hygge is an uncomplicated daily practice that engages us, keeping us attuned to our surroundings and open… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Bench 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 Curl 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 Boundary 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 Architecture 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 Bench Copy Share Image
“Architecture is about the understanding of the world and turning it into a more meaningful and humane place. -Juhani Pallasmaa” — Louisa Thomsen Brits Architecture 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 Collaborative effort Copy Share Image
“Material goods rarely alter our levels of happiness, unlike emotional experience. Having can never replace being. -Ilsa Crawford” — Louisa Thomsen Brits Beauty 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 Aware Copy Share Image
“The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Death Copy Share Image
“Although home still represents stability in an unstable world, we're beginning to see that home can be how we live, a situation… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Attach Copy Share Image
“A hyggelig space is for relatedness, for sharing, not showing off. If we consider and care for each object that we keep,… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Bench Copy Share Image
“When we hygger, we frame the moment, give it our full attention, savour and hold it, in an awareness that the moment… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Attention Copy Share Image
“Hygge is our awareness of the scale of our existence in contrast to the immensity of life. It is our sense of… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Aware Copy Share Image
“At a time of global instability we have become distanced from each other and the environment. We have lost the immediacy, comfort… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Being Copy Share Image
“For years, home has been idealised as a refuge from the world, somewhere predictable and unchanging. But home isn't just where we… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Attention Copy Share Image
“At the heart of hygge is a willingness to set aside time for simply being with people, and, ideally, having all the… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Attention Copy Share Image
“Because interiority focuses on the inside-outside aspect of hygge, it introduces the important theme of contrast. When we hygger there is a… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Bench Copy Share Image
“We all hygger: gathered around a table for a shared meal or beside a fire on a dark night, when we sit… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Bench Copy Share Image
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. -Annie Dillard” — Louisa Thomsen Brits Days Copy Share Image
“It is in the shelter of each other that the people live. -Irish proverb” — Louisa Thomsen Brits Hygge Copy Share Image
“...how a familiar room slowly changes colour as morning arrives.” — Louisa Thomsen Brits Arrive Copy Share Image
“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations. -Oscar Wilde” — Louisa Thomsen Brits Forgive Copy Share Image
“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own creations. -Oscar Wilde” — Louisa Thomsen Brits Forgive Copy Share Image
“Hygge involves comfort, cosiness, a sense of wellbeing, and a relaxed frame of mind. -Judith Friedman Hansen” — Louisa Thomsen Brits Bench Copy Share Image
![“The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss—an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc.—is sure to be noticed. [quoting Søren Kierkegaard]” quote by Louisa Thomsen Brits](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/13b/louisa-thomsen-brits-4007_death_the-greatest-hazard-of-all-losing-one-s_1748126.jpg)
