Today I’m sharing a selection of art and words that are beautiful, inspiring and represent ‘elevated living’ to me.  I hope you find something you like here too…

“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvellous that only the marvellous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvellous, I let go. Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
― Anaïs Nin

“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one”
― Stella Adler

“I must be a mermaid. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.”
― Anaïs Nin

“There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.”

― Coco Chanel

“Stories do not end.”
― Anaïs Nin

“The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.”
― Edith Södergran

“There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don’t work.”

― Anaïs Nin