Sign in with Facebook
424 books
—
287 voters
Heather H
https://www.goodreads.com/thehh06
to-read
(826)
currently-reading (5)
read (1333)
did-not-finish (0)
long-ago-reads (338)
2025 (83)
2023 (68)
currently-reading (5)
read (1333)
did-not-finish (0)
long-ago-reads (338)
2025 (83)
2023 (68)
2024
(64)
personal-development (64)
2018reads (57)
2019 (56)
2022-reads (56)
all-time-faves (55)
2021 (50)
personal-development (64)
2018reads (57)
2019 (56)
2022-reads (56)
all-time-faves (55)
2021 (50)
The ego we see most commonly goes by a more casual definition: an unhealthy belief in our own importance.
“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.”
― A Fugitive Covers His Tracks
― A Fugitive Covers His Tracks
“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.”
― The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country
― The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country
“Danes do have a good work-life balance on the whole. ‘And if we don’t, we usually do something about it. You ask yourself, “are you happy where you are?” If the answer’s “yes” then you stay. If it’s “no”, you leave. We recognise that how you choose to spend the majority of your time is important. For me, it’s the simple life – spending more time in nature and with family. If you work too hard, you get stressed, then you get sick, and then you can’t work at all.”
― The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country
― The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country
“Each novel is a message in a bottle cast into the great ocean of literature from somewhere else (even if it was written and published last week in your home town); and what makes the novel available to its readers is not shared values or beliefs or experiences but the human capacity to conjure new worlds in the imagination. A fully realized novel provides readers with everything they need for their imaginations to go to work.”
― Nervous Conditions
― Nervous Conditions
“By means of the Jante Law’s ten commandments, Jante holds Jante down. And now you must hear them all: 1. Thou shalt not believe thou art something. 2. Thou shalt not believe thou art as good as we. 3. Thou shalt not believe thou art more wise than we. 4. Thou shalt not fancy thyself better than we. 5. Thou shalt not believe thou knowest more than we. 6. Thou shalt not believe thou art greater than we. 7. Thou shalt not believe thou amountest to anything, 8. Thou shalt not laugh at us. 9. Thou shalt not believe that anyone is concerned with thee. 10. Thou shalt not believe thou canst teach us anything. Some of these commandments may perhaps be quite all right as they sound. But he who has lived under the Law of Jante during the fifteen years it took him to develop, who has come to realize its bloody emphasis and its hysterical thirst for power, regards these commandments very differently.”
― A Fugitive Covers His Tracks
― A Fugitive Covers His Tracks
Around the World in 80 Books
— 31347 members
— last activity 3 hours, 29 min ago
Reading takes you places. Where in the world will your next book take you? If you love world literature, translated works, travel writing, or explorin ...more
Heather’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Heather’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
807 books
|
172 friends
4,088 books
|
4,607 friends
2,182 books
|
123 friends
1,440 books
|
32 friends
1,573 books
|
97 friends
1,120 books
|
31 friends
1,843 books
|
56 friends
211 books
|
83 friends
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Heather
Lists liked by Heather
