Katherine Mansfield quotes Born: 10/14/1888 Died: 01/09/1923 Country: france

• The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books. (Katherine Mansfield) [pleasure/reading/books]
• 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) [take/seriously]
• 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) [people]
• I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. (Katherine Mansfield) [high/comfort]
• If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools. (Katherine Mansfield) [love/love]
• I want to be all that I am capable of becoming. (Katherine Mansfield)
• 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) [care/more/opinion/thing]
• I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming. (Katherine Mansfield) [understanding]
• Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. That is the mystery. (Katherine Mansfield) [life/change/suffering/love]
• To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do. (Katherine Mansfield) [delight]
• I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face. (Katherine Mansfield) [love/feeling/face]
• Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. (Katherine Mansfield)
• Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. (Katherine Mansfield)
• I'm a writer first and a woman after. (Katherine Mansfield)
• It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves. (Katherine Mansfield)
• 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)
• Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel. (Katherine Mansfield)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books. (Katherine Mansfield)
• This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment. (Katherine Mansfield)
• What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties. (Katherine Mansfield)
• Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order. (Katherine Mansfield)
• 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)

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