What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties. Katherine Mansfield More Quotes by Katherine Mansfield More Quotes From Katherine Mansfield It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves. Katherine Mansfield importance failure laughing I want to be all that I am capable of becoming. Katherine Mansfield encouraging becoming want The truth is that every true admirer of the novels cherishes the happy thought that he alone - reading between the lines - has bcome the secret friend of their author. Katherine Mansfield happy-thoughts reading secret The mind I love must have wild places. Katherine Mansfield wild-places mind When I say "I fear" - don't let it disturb you, dearest heart. We all fear when we are in waiting-rooms. Yet we must pass beyond them, and if the other can keep calm, it is all the help we can give each other. Katherine Mansfield waiting-rooms heart giving Bless you, my darling, and remember you are always in the heart - oh tucked so close there is no chance of escape - of your sister. Katherine Mansfield sister sibling heart That's all life is - something childish and very natural. Isn't it? Katherine Mansfield life-is natural Ach, Tchekov! Why are you dead? Why can’t I talk to you in a big darkish room at late evening—where the light is green from the waving trees outside? I’d like to write a series of Heavens: that would be one. Katherine Mansfield light writing tree To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure. Katherine Mansfield birth fear giving I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.... This all sounds very strenuous and serious. But now that I have wrestled with it, it's no longer so. I feel happy- deep down. All is well. Katherine Mansfield understanding success life 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 trying people There are always these moments in life when the limits of suffering are reached and we become heroes and heroines. Katherine Mansfield limits suffering hero Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all. Katherine Mansfield looking-back imagine writing Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. Katherine Mansfield transformation accepting acceptance You might drop your heart into me and you'd never hear it touch bottom. Katherine Mansfield greatest-love heart might What can you do if you are thirty and, turning the corner of your own street, you are overcome, suddenly, by a feeling of bliss - absolute bliss - as though you'd suddenly swallowed a bright piece of that late afternoon sun and it burned in your bosom, sending out a little shower of sparks into every particle into every finger and toe? Katherine Mansfield pieces overcoming feelings Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order. Katherine Mansfield risk journey order The fields are snowbound no longer; Katherine Mansfield laughter white spring I must say, I hate money. But it's the lack of it I hate most. Katherine Mansfield i-hate hate In fact, isn't it a joy - there is hardly a greater one - to find a new book, a living book, and to know that it will remain with you while life lasts? Katherine Mansfield lasts joy book
