Katherine Mansfield

Quote: The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books. [Katherine Mansfield]

Quote: When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves. [Katherine Mansfield]

Quote: Would you not like to try all sorts of lives -- one is so very small -- but that is the satisfaction of writing -- one can impersonate so many people. [Katherine Mansfield]

Quote: I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. [Katherine Mansfield]

Quote: If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools. [Katherine Mansfield]

Quote: I want to be all that I am capable of becoming. [Katherine Mansfield]

Quote: Risk! Risk Anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those other voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth. [Katherine Mansfield]

Quote: I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming. [Katherine Mansfield]

Quote: Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. That is the mystery. [Katherine Mansfield]

Quote: To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do. [Katherine Mansfield]

Quote: I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face. [Katherine Mansfield]

Quote: Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. [Katherine Mansfield]

Quote: Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. [Katherine Mansfield]

Quote: I'm a writer first and a woman after. [Katherine Mansfield]

Quote: It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves. [Katherine Mansfield]

Quote: It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible as you like - but a mask. [Katherine Mansfield]

Quote: Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel. [Katherine Mansfield]

Quote: Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all. [Katherine Mansfield]

Quote: Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in. [Katherine Mansfield]

Quote: Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth. [Katherine Mansfield]

Quote: The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books. [Katherine Mansfield]

Quote: This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment. [Katherine Mansfield]

Quote: What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties. [Katherine Mansfield]

Quote: Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order. [Katherine Mansfield]

Quote: Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth. [Katherine Mansfield]

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