Quotes from Alexandra Stoddard

You can't be a resource for others unless you nourish yourself.

Unused rooms are such bad feng shui, really bad energy.

I want to listen to Beethoven and Mozart. I want to read the best minds. I want to live with uplifting art. I don't want to live a grubby life.

A home should be an intimate autobiography of the things that you like. One of the things I'm so keen on expressing is that, if you don't do it for yourself, if you're always seeking affirmation from outside, you'll never have a home. It'll just be a house.

I urge readers to experience things that they love and give up things that are not working.

Work is an opportunity to bring something forth-to create something, complete something, invent something authentic and original.

Seeing well transforms mere existence into the art of living.

"The "art of tea" is a spiritual force for us to share."

Style really comes down to what makes you feel good.

Put a picture of yourself as a child in view somewhere, to remind yourself to be playful.

You're not going to be dreary on the inside if you're not dreary on the outside.