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Attitude
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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 of attitude.
-Katherine Mansfield
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Authors & Writing
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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
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Beauty
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But what Kezia liked more than anything, what she liked frightfully, was the lamp. It stood in the middle of the dining-room table, an exquisite little amber lamp with a white globe. It was filled all ready for lighting, though, of course, you couldn't light it. But there was something inside that looked like oil and moved when you shook it.
The father and mother dolls, who sprawled very stiff as though they had fainted in the drawing-room, and their two little children asleep upstairs, were really too big for the doll's house. They didn't look as though they belonged. But the lamp was perfect. It seemed to smile at Kezia, to say, 'I live here.' The lamp was real.
-Katherine Mansfield, The Doll's House
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Excellence
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I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
-Katherine Mansfield
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Failure
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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
-Katherine Mansfield
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Friends
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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses
-Katherine Mansfield
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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
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Identity
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I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
-Katherine Mansfield
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Life
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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.
-Katherine Mansfield
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Loneliness
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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
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Love
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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.
-Katherine Mansfield
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Reading
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The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
-Katherine Mansfield
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Regret & Remorse
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Make it a rule in life never to regret and never look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it is good only for wallowing in.
-Katherine Mansfield
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Risk
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Risk! Risk Anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those other voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
-Katherine Mansfield
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Suffering
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Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. That is the mystery.
-Katherine Mansfield
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Weather
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I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face.
-Katherine Mansfield
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Work
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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.
-Katherine Mansfield
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Books by and about Katherine Mansfield