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

— Katherine Mansfield

Journal entry (October 1922), published in The Journal of Katherine Mansfield (1927)
Context: When we can begin to take our failures nonseriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

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