Life Quotes And Sayings

"I never wanted to live an unembellished life, and I have never done it.... Living under such a compulsion has been like painting pictures of life,

"Life for me has been exactly what I thought it would be—a cake, which I have eaten and had too."

Margaret Anderson quotes

"As I look at the human story I see two stories. They run parallel and never meet. One is of people who live, as they can or must, the events that arrive; the other is of people who live, as they intend, the events they create."

Margaret Anderson quotes

"The great thing to learn about life is, first, not to do what you don't want to do, and, second, to do what you do want to do."

Margaret Anderson quotes

"I began reviewing my life in relation to its objectives. I saw no objects, I saw only states."

Margaret Anderson quotes

"I have always rebelled against the unadorned, the unbefitting, the unawakened, the unresisting, the undesirable, the unplanned, the unshapely, the uncommitted, the unattempted—all leading to the unintended. I believe in the unsubmissive, the unfaltering, the unassailable, the irresistible, the unbelievable—in other words, in an art of life."