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01Undated

Query: Why am I so bitter against Life? And why do I see her as a rag-picker on the American cinema, shuffling along wrapped in a filthy shawl with her old claws crooked over a stick?Answer: The direct result of the American cinema acting upon a weak mind.

Katherine Mansfield / quote

02Undated

We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. But the tremendous effort needed- one doesn't always want to make it-does one? ... But what else can be done? What's the alternative? What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself in the face of difficulties.

Katherine Mansfield / quote

03Undated

Risk! Risk anything! ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Katherine Mansfield / quote

04Undated

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.

Katherine Mansfield / quote

05Undated

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

Katherine Mansfield / quote

06Undated

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

Katherine Mansfield / quote

07Undated

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

Katherine Mansfield / quote

08Undated

I am treating you as my friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.

Katherine Mansfield / quote

09Undated

We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. ... What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself in the face of difficulties.

Katherine Mansfield / quote

10Undated

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.

Katherine Mansfield / quote

11Undated

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

Katherine Mansfield / quote

12Undated

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy you can't build on it it's good only for wallowing in.

Katherine Mansfield / quote

13Undated

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

Katherine Mansfield / quote

14Undated

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

Katherine Mansfield / quote

15Undated

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.

Katherine Mansfield / quote