Katherine Mansfield Quotes

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

  Katherine Mansfield

  Encouraging, Want, Becoming

  Journal, 1922

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

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• That's all life is - something childish and very natural. Isn't it?

  Katherine Mansfield

  Life Is, Natural

  Katherine Mansfield (2016). “KATHERINE MANSFIELD Premium Collection: 160+ Short Stories & Poems (Literature Classics Series): The Complete Short Stories and Poetry of Katherine Mansfield: Bliss, The Garden Party, The Dove’s Nest, Something Childish, In a German Pension, The Aloe, Poems at the Villa Pauline, Child Verses...”, p.327, e-artnow

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• 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

  Inspirational, Positive, Wisdom

  Journal, 10 Oct. 1922

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

  Katherine Mansfield

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  "Talks with Katherine Mansfield at Fontainebleau" by A. R. Orage, The Century Magazine, November 1924.

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• How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — like rags and shreds of your very life.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Rags, Littles, Fence

  Katherine Mansfield, Vincent O'Sullivan, Margaret Scott (2008). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1922-1923”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• If you wish to live, you must first attend your own funeral.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Philosophy, Funeral, Wish

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• The mind I love must have wild places.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Wild Places, Mind

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

  Katherine Mansfield

  Regret, Looks, Life Moves On

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

  Katherine Mansfield

  Failure, Laughing, Importance

  Katherine Mansfield, Margaret Scott (1997). “The Katherine Mansfield notebooks”

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• Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Acceptance, Transformation, Accepting

  Katherine Mansfield (1996). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume IV: 1920-1921”, p.150, Clarendon Press

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• To long for everything: sorrow; to accept everything: joy.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Long, Joy, Sorrow

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• I adore Life. What do all the fools matter and all the stupidity. They do matter but somehow for me they cannot touch the body of Life. Life is marvellous. I want to be deeply rooted in it - to live - to expand - to breathe in it - to rejoice - to share it. To give and to be asked for Love.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Giving, Stupidity, Body

  Katherine Mansfield, Vincent O'Sullivan, Margaret Scott (1984). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1919-1920”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Do the hardest thing on earth for you. ACT YOURSELF.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Risk, Earth, Take A Chance

  Journal, 10 Oct. 1922

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

  Katherine Mansfield

  Love, Friendship, Best Friend

  Katherine Mansfield (1987). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume II: 1918-September 1919”, OUP Oxford

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

  Katherine Mansfield

  Life, Life Lesson, Habit

  Katherine Mansfield (1996). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume IV: 1920-1921”, p.231, Clarendon Press

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• I want, by understanding myself, to understand others.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Understanding, Want, Superficial

  Journal, 1922

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• There is no feeling to be compared with the feeling of having written and finished a story.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Feelings, Stories, Written

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• 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

  Writing, People, Trying

  Katherine Mansfield, Vincent O'Sullivan, Margaret Scott (2008). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1922-1923”, Oxford University Press, USA

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

  Katherine Mansfield

  Book, Reading, Literacy

  Katherine Mansfield, Vincent O'Sullivan, Margaret Scott (2008). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1922-1923”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• What I feel for you can’t be conveyed in phrasal combinations; It either screams out loud or stays painfully silent but I promise — it beats words. It beats worlds. I promise

  Katherine Mansfield

  Love, Promise, World

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• I think of you often. Especially in the evenings, when I am on the balcony and it’s too dark to write or to do anything but wait for the stars. A time I love. One feels half disembodied, sitting like a shadow at the door of one’s being while the dark tide rises. Then comes the moon, marvellously serene, and small stars, very merry for some reason of their own. It is so easy to forget, in a worldly life, to attend to these miracles.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Stars, Writing, Dark

  Katherine Mansfield (1974). “The Letters of Katherine Mansfield”

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• It's rather nice to think of oneself as a sailor bending over the map of one's mind and deciding where to go and how to go. The great thing to remember is we can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Strong, Nice, Thinking

  Katherine Mansfield, Vincent O'Sullivan, Margaret Scott (2008). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1922-1923”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Whatever happens I have had these blissful, perfect moments and they are worth living for.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Perfect, Moments, Whatever Happens

  Katherine Mansfield (1974). “The Letters of Katherine Mansfield”

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• My love for you tonight is so deep and tender that it seems to be outside myself as well.

  Katherine Mansfield

  My Love For You, Greatest Love, Tonight

  Katherine Mansfield (1951). “Letters to John Middleton Murry, 1913-1922”

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