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.
"Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry" was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of "Katherine Mansfield". At 19, Mansfield left New Zealand and settled in the United Kingdom, where she became a friend of modernist writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. In 1917 she was diagnosed with Tuberculosis#Extrapulmonary/extrapulmonary tuberculosis, which led to her death at the age of 34.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous writers! More Katherine Mansfield on Wikipedia.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.
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.
By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof - the sea - the sun.
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.
I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment.
Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. That is the mystery.
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 for wallowing in.
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