Kathleen Mansfield Murry was a prominent New Zealand modernist writer of short fiction who wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield.
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“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.”
Katherine Mansfield
“This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment”
“I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.”
“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 good for wallowing in.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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 love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face.”