Simple Matters Quotes

“Better to plan for less, leaving a place wanting more, and maybe even returning at another time.”
― Jenny Mustard, Simple Matters: A Scandinavian's Approach to Work, Home, and Style

“I’m not a big fan of should. I rather make decisions based on want and need.”
― Jenny Mustard, Simple Matters: A Scandinavian's Approach to Work, Home, and Style

“I want to be grateful, and I want to be humble. I want to do my bit to make this world a better place. But I also want to experience it all—devour as much of this life as I possibly can. I want to dress in beautiful things and taste all the gorgeous flavors the world has to offer. I want to dance with the most beautiful man alive, whom I have the luxury to call my own. I want to carefully put on makeup and make my bed neatly every morning, put flowers in my windows and toast the beauty I see. I want to walk down the street feeling like a stunning creature. And I want to nod my head in recognition to all of you other stunning creatures out there. To you who make an effort, who give a damn. To all of you who are grateful and appreciate. And who want to experience it all.

This might be shallow—it probably is. I might be shallow—I probably am.

But you know what? I’m ok with it.”
― Jenny Mustard, Simple Matters: A Scandinavian's Approach to Work, Home, and Style

“Life as a duck [...] "You can run, but just a little. You can fly, but just a little. And you can swim, but just a little." This friend of mine is Thai, and, apparently, calling someone a duck in Thailand is not exactly meant as a compliment. [...] Calling me a duck was her way of saying that I'm the opposite of an expert; I'm an odd-job person. I know a little about a lot, not a lot about a little. In conclusion, I'm a duck. [...] I'm happy to run, fly and swim. Even if it's just a little.”
― Jenny Mustard, Simple Matters: A Scandinavian's Approach to Work, Home, and Style

“To my surprise though, I’ve started to get better at handling the slowness of things. I don’t know why that is, but I’m suspecting that it has to do with me being ever more content with where I’m at for each year that passes. (…) Trust the process, Bro.”
― Jenny Mustard, Simple Matters: A Scandinavian's Approach to Work, Home, and Style

“I’m learning not to care about being good at everything at once. It’s a freeing feeling, being ok with my imperfections. I’m not the most ethical, educated, zen, athletic, minimalistic, well-dressed person out there. Nor do I strive to be. I’m good with putting a kind of instead of a most in front of all those adjectives.”
― Jenny Mustard, Simple Matters: A Scandinavian's Approach to Work, Home, and Style

“Sooner or later, everything comes to London. Just stay put and you’ll be able to see the world, all while staying within the city limits.”
― Jenny Mustard, Simple Matters: A Scandinavian's Approach to Work, Home, and Style

“It’s a strange things, insecurities - how often the features you initially hate about yourself (because they make you stand out) end up being the ones you fall in love with and appreciate the most (because they make you stand out). I am tall, I am pale, my ears stick out, and my limbs are freakishly long. All things that I used to find ugly, but now love about myself. Other things, I still find ugly (cellulite, I’m talking to you). But who knows, perhaps with age I’ll find even my cellulite and wobbly knees charming. If there’s one thing that seems to only grow stronger with age, it’s acceptance. The embrace of your quirks and imperfections, because they are the things that make you.”
― Jenny Mustard, Simple Matters: A Scandinavian's Approach to Work, Home, and Style

“Most important, I need David to feel at home. [...] Because as it turns out, home isn't a certain place. Home isn't even where I hang my hat. Home is wherever I'm hanging out with David.”
― Jenny Mustard, Simple Matters: A Scandinavian's Approach to Work, Home, and Style

“We all deserve this zone, where we can take a creative nap and lick the wounds that the outside world has given us. And, once healed, we’ll slowly get ready for that next push outside - where greatness awaits.”
― Jenny Mustard, Simple Matters: A Scandinavian's Approach to Work, Home, and Style

“the luxuries my privileged life brings me in solidarity with everyone out there who is having a hard time? I used to think so. I used to feel so bad about all the wrongs in this world that I couldn’t enjoy the rights. The beauty. The loveliness. The shallow superficialities that make my life pleasant.
It made me miserable, it made me feel guilty about how lucky I was. The misery and guilt I experienced though—did it make life better for anyone else? I now think that not enjoying the good things that come my way would be inexcusable ungratefulness. This makes sense to me because whenever I, myself, have been through a rough patch, I get so confused by people who have succeeded in reaching their goals, but are unable to enjoy it for fear of seeming stuck up, spoiled, or full of themselves. What’s the point of working your ass off to make something out of yourself, if you’re then not allowing yourself to enjoy it?
I want to be grateful, and I want to be humble. I want to do my bit to make this world a better place. But I also want to experience it all—devour as much of this life as I possibly can. I want to dress in beautiful things and taste all the gorgeous flavors the world has to offer. I want to dance with the most beautiful man alive, whom I have the luxury to call my own. I want to carefully put on makeup and make my bed neatly every morning, put flowers in my windows and toast the beauty I see. I want to walk down the street feeling like a stunning creature. And I want to nod my head in recognition to all of you other stunning creatures out there. To you who make an effort, who give a damn. To all of you who are grateful and appreciate. And who want to experience it all.

This might be shallow—it probably is. I might be shallow—I probably am.

But you know what? I’m ok with it.”
― Jenny Mustard, Simple Matters: A Scandinavian's Approach to Work, Home, and Style