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A private language is only part of what a long marriage involves. A marriage has a body of mythology and folklore and anecdote and codes; is its own world, its own ecology, its own system of beliefs and values. And perhaps more than that,
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“What I mean when I say “Vilnius” is the strength of a people to be the first to vote to leave the Soviet Union in 1991, and the persistence to make that vote mean something.”
― Love Songs of the Revolution
― Love Songs of the Revolution
“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.”
― A Fugitive Covers His Tracks
― A Fugitive Covers His Tracks
“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
“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.”
― 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
“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
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