What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.

Quote by Katherine Mansfield

Topics: Katherine Mansfield Quotes

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never...

Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never...

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do...

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do...

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.

I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the...

I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the...

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very...

Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very...

I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face.

I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret...

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret...

Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them.

Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them.

It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is -...

It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is -...

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do...

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do...

This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment

This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment

It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far...

Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far...

I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the...

I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the...

I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about...

I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about...

My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous...

My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous...

This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of...

This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of...

Indeed, we do not really live unless we have friends surrounding us like a firm...

Indeed, we do not really live unless we have friends surrounding us like a firm...