Tidied all my papers. Tore up and ruthlessly destroyed much. This is always a great satisfaction. — Katherine Mansfield
Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness. — Katherine Mansfield
What do you want most to do? that’s what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties. — Katherine Mansfield
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. — Katherine Mansfield
Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them. — Katherine Mansfield
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. — Katherine Mansfield
I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming. — Katherine Mansfield
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books. — Katherine Mansfield
E. M. Forster never gets any further than warming the teapot. He’s a rare fine hand at that. — Katherine Mansfield
Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order. — Katherine Mansfield
Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can’t build on it; it is only good for wallowing in. — Katherine Mansfield
Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy — Katherine Mansfield
Risk! risk anything! care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. — Katherine Mansfield