Top 50 Louisa Thomsen Brits Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused. -Proverb.”

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2. “It is in the shelter of each other that the people live. -Irish proverb.”

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3. “We do not remember days, we remember moments. -Cesare Pavese.”

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4. “The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. -Ludwig Wittgenstein.”

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5. “Home should be a warm, liveable place that is alive, a place to please the eye and soothe the senses in scale, curves, colour, variety, pattern and texture. -Josef Frank.”

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6. “Considering family togetherness seems promising for understanding hygge in its most basic form. When we refer to hygge, we are using the concept of home and family to think with. -Jeppe Trolle Linnet.”

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7. “Just living isn’t enough,” said the butterfly, “one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower.” -Hans Christian Anderson.”

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8. “Life begins well. It begins enclosed, protected, all warm in the bosom of the house. -Gaston Bachelard.”

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9. “Every repast can have soul and can be enchanting; it asks for only a small degree of mindfulness and a habit of doing things with care and imagination. -Thomas Moore.”

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10. “Material goods rarely alter our levels of happiness, unlike emotional experience. Having can never replace being. -Ilsa Crawford.”

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11. “Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. -William Morris.”

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12. “Without a home, everything is fragmentation. -John Berger.”

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13. “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.”

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14. “Hygge involves comfort, cosiness, a sense of wellbeing, and a relaxed frame of mind. -Judith Friedman Hansen.”

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15. “I felt it shelter to speak to you. -Emily Dickinson.”

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16. “Hygge is our awareness of the scale of our existence in contrast to the immensity of life. It is our sense of intimacy and encounter with each other and with the creaturely world around us. It is the presence of nature calling us back to the present moment, calling us home.”

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17. “I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves – such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine. The ideals that have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face live cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness and Beauty. -Albert Einstein.”

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18. “He who knows contentment is rich. -Lao Tzu.”

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19. “We still carry within us, in a small warm spot, the idea of home. Home as a safe place, a loving place and a creative place. Place of comfort and privacy. Place where we can explore our inner life. -Isla Crawford.”

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20. “The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. -William Morris.”

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21. “The grace of a curve is an invitation to remain. We cannot break away from it without hoping to return. -Gaston Bachelard.”

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22. “True kinship takes a warm heart. In essence, it is about being together, deeply honestly. We talk about love so much but we forget that it is something we give rather than get: a way of being. -Ilse Crawford.”

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23. “The way that we hygger and offer reassurance is unique to each of us according to the things to which we attach most meaning. Some of us nourish others by cooking. Some offer comfort in conversation or good-natured humour. Others are adept at creating an easy ambience through which hygge flows.”

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24. “How we need that security. How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this. I need someone to pour myself into. -Sylvia Plath.”

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25. “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.”

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26. “To be in a situation characterised by hygge is to be in a state of pleasant wellbeing and security, with a relaxed frame of mind and an open enjoyment of the immediate situation in all its small pleasures – a state one achieves most often with close members of one’s social network in a home-like setting. -Judith Friedman Hansen.”

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27. “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.”

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28. “Less is more. -Robert Browning.”

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

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30. “Hygge is part of the language of human action and interaction all over the world. To hygge is a universal impetus revealed in the small rituals, gestures and daily experiences that unite and define us all.”

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31. “Architecture is about the understanding of the world and turning it into a more meaningful and humane place. -Juhani Pallasmaa.”

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32. “The most common form of despair is not being who you are. -Soren Kierkegaard.”

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

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34. “When we are content, our daily actions are infused with a quiet satisfaction that we share with those around us. We become aware of and responsible for other people’s well-being and they, in turn, for ours. Hygge captures a way of being with other people, caring for them and ourselves.”

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

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36. “Inside each of us are memories, fantasies and desires for home – a shelter waiting to be built, a place of peace to be revisited.”

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37. “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.”

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38. “Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge.”

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39. “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.”

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40. “Home is an emotional state, a place in the imagination where feelings of security, belonging, placement, family, protection, memory and personal history abide. -Thomas Moore.”

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41. “We cannot all do great things. But we can do small things with great love. -Mother Teresa.”

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42. “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.”

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

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44. “For years, home has been idealised as a refuge from the world, somewhere predictable and unchanging. But home isn’t just where we go to escape the world. Home is how we inhabit the world. Meaning comes from connection and a willingness to pay attention to the particulars of our lives, from the things we choose to use to our daily rituals and shared activities.”

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45. “Hygge is a phenomenon that reflects our way of inhabiting the world. The routines that shape our days locate us – from the places we visit to the small rituals that give us pause.”

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46. “Hygge relies on us finding a balance between self-containment and wholehearted participation, personal liberty and awareness of the needs of others. It connotes a caring, civilised mode of behaviour that builds companionable ease and trust.”

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47. “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.”

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48. “Mind, home and country are the interiorities of hygge.”

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49. “Hygge gives us a framework to support our very human needs, desires and habits. To learn to hygge is to take practical steps to evoke it – to shelter, cluster, enclose, embrace, comfort and warm ourselves and each other. Cultivating the habits of balance, moderation, care and observance will then comfortably entire more hygge in our daily lives.”

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

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