Katherine Mansfield

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

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.

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.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change of attitude.

England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude.

What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

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.

I'm a writer first and a woman after.

Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order.

This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment.

Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.

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.

Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them.

Wind moving through grass so that the grass quivers. This moves me with an emotion I don't even understand.

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.

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back.

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

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.

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.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face.

Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it - it's only good for wallowing in.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.