Katherine Mansfield
» Books and Reading » “The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
» Excellence » “I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.”
» Failure » “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.”
» Fiction » “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.”
» Life and Living » “Life never becomes a habit to me. It’s always a marvel.”
» Loneliness » “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.”
» Love » “If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.”
» Regret » “Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can’t build on it; it’s only good for wallowing in.”
» Regret » “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.”
» Self-knowledge » “I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.”
» Suffering » “Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. That is the mystery.”
» Weather » “I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face.”
» Work » “To work — to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.”
