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.

Quote by Katherine Mansfield

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Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love....

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love....

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.

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 -...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms...

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms...

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...

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...

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself...

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself...

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the...

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the...

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

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

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I...

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I...

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.

When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be...

When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be...

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little...

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little...

Try and fail, but don't fail to try.

Try and fail, but don't fail to try.

My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the...

My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the...

Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.

Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.