Quotes by Katherine Mansfield

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

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

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

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

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

“When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.”

“Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. That is the mystery.”

“The things which the child loves remain in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful thing in life is that our souls remaining over the places where we once enjoyed ourselves”

“What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.”

“I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas”

“Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.”

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

“To work / to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.”

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

“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.”

“Tidied all my papers. Tore up and ruthlessly destroyed much. This is always a great satisfaction.”

“Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change”

“E. M. Forster never gets any further than warming the teapot. Hes a rare fine hand at that. Feel this teapot. Is it not beautifully warm? Yes, but there aint going to be no tea.”

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me”

“Resist no temptation: a guilty conscience is more honorable than regret”