111 Quotes About Hygge

It must be emphasized that hygge entails commitment to the present moment and a readiness to set distractions aside. -Judith Friedman Hansen

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.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. -Annie Dillard

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. -Simone Weil

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.

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

To curl up belongs to the phenomenology of the verb to inhabit, and only those who have learned to do so can inhabit with intensity. -Gaston Bachelard

That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet. -Emily Dickinson

All really inhabited space bears the essence of the notion of home. -Gaston Bachelard