Being too preoccupied with how a gathering is taking shape, and making obvious attempts to take personal responsibility for the smooth running of an event, will diminish the flame at the heart of hygge.

Craft makes our homes more human. -Ilsa Crawford

I felt it shelter to speak to you. -Emily Dickinson

If you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger. -Kahlil Gibran

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

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

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

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

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

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