Katherine Mansfield Quotes

I just think we need to have a little sense of humor about yourself and just live and learn, take some chances.

You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.

A character, their ability or inability to laugh at themselves should always be a very, very conscious choice. It's a very big key to the nature of a human being.

What's happened in my career has been about knowing myself and realizing my flaws are my strengths, and to embrace them; to access what I'm really good at, and what I'm not so good at; and tune out the voices that get inside your head and make you think you can't do something.

I always thought I could be brave and charge at things and smash 'em and walk away, but it takes courage to sit and look at things and say, 'This is what I am. How do I fix it? How do I live with it?'

I think when you get to that point in your life where you're the first to laugh at yourself, you're at the best place of your life.

Some weak people are so sensible of their weakness as to be able to make a good use of it.

It's definitely the biggest lesson - not to take things personally. But it's also the hardest one.

It's occurred to me I need to laugh at myself more, and that I don't need to be some sad folk singer all the time. I don't want to be the queen of pain.

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

I'm growing up and continuing to learn from my mistakes and trying not to make the same ones over and over again, but am I going to live in a shell, or am I just going to hide from everybody and not do anything? I don't think that's the way I should live my life, and I'm not going to do it.

I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure.

I feel myself becoming the fearless person I have dreamt of being. Have I arrived? No. But I'm constantly evolving and challenging myself to be unafraid to make mistakes.

You can never control other people. You can only control yourself. I have definitely learned that.

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.

Every time I'd get a critique or some redirection, I'd always just take it very personally. Now I have no problem with it.

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'

Unless I try, I'm never really going to be at ease with myself.

Self-awareness is value-free. It isn't scary. It doesn't imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain.

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

By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

Laugh at yourself - a lot. My mum taught me not to take myself too seriously.

I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.

The show is 'Fix My Life!' Get it? Life. I do not fix people.