The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well

You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy cake, and that is almost the same thing

the best predictor of whether we are happy or not is our social relationships

Hygge is about appreciating the simple pleasures in life and can be achieved on a shoestring budget. The poem and song ‘The Happy Day of Svante’ by Benny Andersen

make things more casual, cosy and egalitarian

Save for them – but wait until you have that really hyggelig experience: you want to be reminded of it when you pull them on.

loved, warm and safe

culture’s language both reflects how people experience their world and affects their actions in it.

Our language reflects our world. We give the things we see – things that matter – names.

In other words, what freedom is to Americans, thoroughness to Germans and the stiff upper lip to the British, hygge is to Danes.

Introverts are social, but in a different way.