Hygge House Quotes & Sayings

Love is such a deep gratitude. When you are truly in love with life, every breath you take is gratitude. — Bryant McGill

The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul. — Patrick Kavanagh

Watchfulness is the only guard against cunning. Be intent on his intentions. Many succeed in making others do their own affairs, and unless you possess the key to their motives you may at any moment be forced to take their chestnuts out of the fire to the damage of your own fingers. — Baltasar Gracian

Astronomers still can't decide what the shape of our universe is. Is it closed and finite, which is to say, is there a countable tally of all the galaxies that exist, even beyond the ones we can see? Or is it infinite? The latter possibility is still on the table. — Seth Shostak

[A]ll the ingenious men, and all the scientific men, and all the fanciful men, in the world, ... could never invent, if all their wits were boiled into one, anything so curious and so ridiculous as a lobster. — Charles Kingsley

To give life to sculpture I found it must have a pulse, a breathing quality that could change in a flash, and it must never appear static, hard, or unrevealing. All these demands formed themslves in my thoughts, and became like an endless obsession. — Malvina Hoffman

As evolutionary time is measured, we have only just turned up and have hardly had time to catch breath, still marveling at our thumbs, still learning to use the brand-new gift of language. Being so young, we can be excused all sorts of folly and can permit ourselves the hope that someday, as a species, we will begin to grow up. — Lewis Thomas

Putting your best foot forward at least keeps it out of your mouth. — Morris Mandel

Be a river - not a reservoir. — John C. Maxwell

I graduated in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our first child Laura, who was then a year old. — Harry Mathews

It can't be supposed," said Joe. "Tho' I'm oncommon fond of reading, too."
Are you, Joe?"
Oncommon. Give me," said Joe, "a good book, or a good newspaper, and sit me down afore a good fire, and I ask no better. Lord!" he continued, after rubbing his knees a little, "when you do come to a J and a O, and says you, 'Here, at last, is a J-O, Joe,' how interesting reading is! — Charles Dickens

Sometimes family hurts you more than they could ever love you. — Tijan

I like when you watch me. I can't think straight when you have those crazy gray eyes on me. — Christina Lauren

'Bram and Alice' is the best show I've done so far, and it only aired three times. — Traylor Howard

Tighten your prose so the story flows. — Anna Dobritt