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“You cannot buy the right atmosphere or a sense of togetherness. You cannot hygge if you are in a hurry or stressed out, and the art of creating intimacy cannot be bought by anything but time, interest and engagement in the people around you.”
― Meik Wiking, The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well

tags: hygge, relationship

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“Hygge is about appreciating the simple pleasures in life and can be achived on a shoestring budget.”
― Meik Wiking, The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well

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“Danes are not the only ones who can have hygge or identify it, and other languages have similar expressions. The Dutch call it gezelligheid and Germans talk of Gemütlichkeit, a sense of well-being based on good food and good company, and Canadians will recognize it as “hominess.”
― Meik Wiking, The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living

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“Hygge is about giving your responsible, stressed-out achiever adult a break. Relax. Just for a little while. It is about experiencing happiness in simple pleasures and knowing that everything is going to be okay.”
― Meik Wiking, The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living

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“It is wearing your pajamas and watching Lord of the Rings the day before Christmas, it is sitting in your window watching the weather while sipping your favorite tea, and it is looking into the bonfire on summer solstice surrounded by your friends and family while your twistbread slowly bakes.”
― Meik Wiking, The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living

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