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“find a study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition confirming that home-cooked meals actually make people feel better than indulgent meals eaten at a restaurant.”
― Helen Russell, The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country

“The Worldwatch Institute’s 2011 State of Consumption report also found that wealth won’t help you on your way to having a satisfying life and new research shows that there’s even a cut-off point for the amount of income we need to be content. A combined study from the Universities of Warwick and Minnesota found that there was a basic threshold beyond which any extra money added nothing to levels of well-being. The figure is around 197,000 DKK a year (£22,000 or $36,000), after which we apparently get wealthier but less contented.”
― Helen Russell, The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country

“Music and night follow the same route to the human heart.  In music and in alcoholic intoxication we are carried downward to our level of existence at the time we lay in the cradle and adored ourselves.  Intoxication, night, and music — each is a person who casts himself to earth and shrieks his own name.”
― Aksel Sandemose, A Fugitive Covers His Tracks

“It will always hold true that the under class will not be stirred into action until after the best minds within the upper class have perceived that the latter is no longer able to manage its own tasks.  With the first signs of such weakness, the superseding class rises like a tidal wave.  A society erected upon a class system falls when its structure has been analyzed and become understood.  The middle-class social democrats wished to develop into a bourgeois state; now they have paid in blood for their lack of vision.”
― Aksel Sandemose, A Fugitive Covers His Tracks