A big bee, a golden furry fellow, crept into a freesia, and the delicate flower leaned over, swung, shook; and when the bee flew away it fluttered still as though it were laughing. Happy, careless flower!

— Katherine Mansfield

Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes.

— Katherine Mansfield

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different?

— Katherine Mansfield

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 in attitude.

— Katherine Mansfield

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

Everything about her was sweet, pale like honey. You would not have been surprised to see a bee caught in the tangles of that yellow hair.

— Katherine Mansfield

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.

— Katherine Mansfield

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become love. That is the mystery.

— Katherine Mansfield

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

— Katherine Mansfield

I always felt that the great high privilege relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

— Katherine Mansfield