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“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
― Anne Frank tags: activism, life, optimism, philosophy, world
7,648 people liked it like “It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl tags: hope, human-nature
5,563 people liked it like “Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
― Anne Frank tags: anne, beauty, frank, happy
4,958 people liked it like “I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
― Anne Frank tags: writing
2,540 people liked it like “Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.”
― Anne Frank tags: growing-up, innocence, inspirational, parenting, personal-responsibility, right-of-passage, self-determination, self-responsibility
1,316 people liked it like “Because paper has more patience than people. ”
― Anne Frank tags: affirming, inspirational, uplifting
1,145 people liked it like “I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl tags: beauty, hope, inspirational, joy
1,141 people liked it like “No one has ever become poor by giving.”
― Anne Frank, diary of Anne Frank tags: charity, compassion, helping-others, kindness
1,070 people liked it like “The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. As longs as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl tags: nature
901 people liked it like “Whoever is happy will make others happy.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl tags: happiness
625 people liked it like “Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.”
― Anne Frank tags: candle, darkness, illumination
548 people liked it like “People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl tags: independent-thought, opinions
543 people liked it like “I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!”
― Anne Frank
514 people liked it like “In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank tags: inspirational
508 people liked it like “Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition
430 people liked it like “In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
― Anne Frank tags: humanity
400 people liked it like “We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.”
― Anne Frank tags: happiness, literature
396 people liked it like “Although I'm only fourteen, I know quite well what I want, I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child, I feel quite indepedent of anyone.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank tags: hope, inspirational, wise
362 people liked it like “Women should be respected as well! Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn't women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?...Women, who struggle and suffer pain to ensure the continuation of the human race, make much tougher and more courageous soldiers than all those big-mouthed freedom-fighting heroes put together!”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl tags: insightful
340 people liked it like “Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.”
― Anne Frank
329 people liked it like “Memories mean more to me than dresses.”
― Anne Frank
292 people liked it like “There's only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and foget everybody else!
It sound egotistical, but it's actually the only cure for those suffering from self-pity.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank tags: humor
249 people liked it like “Those who have courage and faith shall never perish in misery”
― Anne Frank tags: amazing
244 people liked it like “Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.”
― Anne Frank tags: work
242 people liked it like “A quiet conscience makes one strong!”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl tags: ethics, integrity, morality, peace, spirituality, strength
216 people liked it like “As long as this exists, this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can I be sad?”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
200 people liked it like “I believe that even bad people are truly good at heart.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl tags: anne-frank
182 people liked
it like “Anyhow, I've learned one thing now. You only really get to know people when you've had a jolly good row with them. Then and then only can you judge their true characters!”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
181 people liked it like “Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!”
― Anne Frank tags: literature
165 people liked it like “The weak die out and the strong will survive, and will live on forever”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank
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“I have one outstanding trait in my character, which must strike anyone who knows me for any length of time, and that is my knowledge of myself. I can watch myself and my actions, just like an outsider. The Anne of every day I can face entirely without prejudice, without making excuses for her, and watch what's good and what's bad about her. This 'self-consciousness' haunts me, and every time I open my mouth I know as soon as I've spoken whether 'that ought to have been different' or 'that was right as it was.' There are so many things about myself that I condemn; I couldn't begin to name them all. I understand more and more how true Daddy's words were when he said: 'All children must look after their own upbringing.' Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
141 people liked it like “You can be lonely even when you are loved by many people, since you are still not anybody's one and only.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
137 people liked it like “I think a lot, but I don't say much.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
137 people liked it like “I don't have much in the way of money or worldly possessions, I'm not beautiful, intelligent or clever, but I'm happy, and I intend to stay that way! I was born happy, I love people, I have a trusting nature, and I'd like everyone else to be happy too. ”
― Anne Frank
135 people liked it like “I wish to go on living even after my death.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
132 people liked it like “Ever since I was a little girl and could barely talk, the word 'why' has lived and grown along with me. It's a well-known fact that children ask questions about anything and everything, since almost everything is new to them. That is especially true of me, and not just as a child. Even when I was older, I couldn't stop asking questions.
I have to admit that it can be annoying sometimes, but I comfort myself with the thought that "You won't know until you ask," though by now I've asked so much that they ought to have made me a professor.
When I got older, I noticed that not all questions can be asked and that many whys can never be answered. As a result, I tried to work things out for myself by mulling over my own questions. And I came to the important discovery that questions which you either can't or shouldn't ask in public, or questions which you can't put into words, can easily be solved in your own head. So the word 'why' not only taught me to ask, but also to think. And thinking has never hurt anyone. On the contrary, it does us all a world of good.”
― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex
129 people liked it like “How noble and good everyone could be if, every evening before falling asleep, they were to recall to their minds the events of the whole day and consider exactly what has been good and bad. Then without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day.”
― Anne Frank tags: anne-frank, self-improvement
126 people liked it like “Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.”
― Anne Frank
112 people liked it like “I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl tags: courage
111 people liked it like “People who have a religion should be glad, for not everyone has the gift of believing in heavenly things.”
― Anne Frank
110 people liked it like “But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl tags: emotions, feelings
109 people liked it like “People who have a religion should be glad, for not everyone has the gift of believing in heavenly things. You don't necessarily even have to be afraid of punishment after death; purgatory, hell, and heaven are things that a lot of people can't accept, but still a religion, it doesn't matter which, keeps a person on the right path. It isn't the fear of God but the upholding of one's own honor and conscience. How noble and good everyone could be if, every evening before falling asleep, they were to recall to their minds the events of the while day and consider exactly what has been good and bad. Then, without realizing it you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day; of course, you achieve quite a lot in the course of time. Anyone can do this, it costs nothing and is certainly very helpful. Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that: "A quiet conscience mades one strong!”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl tags: anne-frank, consciousness, experience, inspirational, life, life-lessons, people, true, truth, wisdom,wisdom-quote
108 people liked it like “Don't condemn me, remember rather that sometimes I, too, can reach the bursting point.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank: And Related Readings
101 people liked it like “If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example.”
― Anne Frank tags: holocaust, inspirational, judaism
97 people liked it like “The weak fall, but the strong will remain and never go under!”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl tags: anne-frank, strong, survival, weak
96 people liked it like “And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.”
― Anne Frank tags: anne-frank
94 people liked it like “Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.”
― Anne Frank
88 people liked it like “Sometimes I believe that God wants to try me, both now and later on; I must become good through my own efforts, without examples and without good advice.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
86 people liked it like “How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway... And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!”
― Anne Frank
82 people liked it like “The question is very understandable, but no one has found a satisfactory answer to it so far. Yes, why do they make still more gigantic planes, still heavier bombs and, at the same time, prefabricated houses for reconstruction? Why should millions be spent daily on the war and yet there's not a penny available for medical services, artists, or for poor people?

Why do some people have to starve, while there are surpluses rotting in other parts of the world? Oh,why are people so crazy?”
― Anne Frank tags: 223, anne, frank, inspirational, page, questions
78 people liked it like “There's something happening everyday, but I'm too tired and lazy to write it all down.”
― Anne Frank
75 people liked it like “A voice within me is sobbing, "You see that's what's become of you. You're surrounded by negative opinions, dismayed looks and mocking faces, people who dislike you, and all because you don't listen to the advice of your own better half." Believe me, I'd like to listen, but it doesn't work, because if I'm quiet and serious, everyone thinks I'm putting on a new act and I have to save myself with a joke, and then I'm not even talking about my own family, who assume I must be sick, stuff me with aspirins and setatives, feel my neck and forehead to see if I have a temperature, ask about my bowel movements and berate me for being in a bad mood, until I just can't keep it up anymore, because when everybody starts hovering over me, I get cross, then sad, an finally end up turning my heart inside out, the bad part on the outside and the good part on the inside, and keep trying to find a way to become what I'd like to be and what I could be if . . . if only there were no other people in the world.

Yours, Anne M. Frank.”
― Anne Frank tags: anne-frank, world, world-war
72 people liked it like “Sympathy, Love, Fortune... We all have these qualities but still tend to not use them!”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
71 people liked it like “Everyone thinks I'm showing off when I talk, ridiculous when I'm silent, insolent when I answer, cunning when I have a good idea, lazy when I'm tired, selfish when I eat one bite more than I should.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl tags: anne-frank, diary, world-war-ii
70 people liked it like “In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.”
― Anne Frank tags: inspirational
69 people liked it like “I love you, with a love so great that it simply couldn't keep growing inside my heart, but had to leap out and reveal itself in all its magnitude.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl tags: love
67 people liked it like “I've found that there is always some beauty left -- in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
65 people liked it like “I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart.”
― Anne Frank
64 people liked it like “I want to go on living even after my death! And therefore I am grateful to God for this gift, this possibility of developing myself and of writing, of expressing all that is in me. I can shake off everything if I write; my sorrows disappear; my courage is reborn. But, and that is the great question, will I ever be able to write anything great, will I ever become a journalist or a writer?”
― Anne Frank tags: page-197
63 people liked it like “I've learned one thing: you can only really get to know a person after a row. Only then can you judge their true character!”
“In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
51 people liked it like “Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl tags: loneliness, youngster
50 people liked it like “Go outside...amidst the simple beauty of nature...and know that as long as places like this exist, there will be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be.”
― Anne Frank
49 people liked it like “The reason for my starting a diary is that I have no real friend.”
― Anne Frank tags: inspirational-life
46 people liked it like “Crying can bring relief, as long as you don't cry alone.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl tags: truth
46 people liked it like “A person who's happy will make others happy; a person who has courage and faith will never die in misery”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
45 people liked it like “If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly in hand before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.”
― Anne Frank tags: literature
44 people liked it like “The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.”
― Anne Frank tags: personal-responsibility
42 people liked it like “I do my best to please everybody, far more than they'd ever guess. I try to laugh it all off, because I don't want to let them see my trouble.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
38 people liked it like “I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, I can't do anything to change events anyway.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl tags: life-and-death
38 people liked it like “Looking back, I realize that this period of my life has irrevocably come to a close; my happy-go-lucky, carefree schooldays are gone forever. I don't even miss them. I've outgrown them. I can no longer just kid around, since my serious side is always there.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
37 people liked it like “It's difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
37 people liked it like “Sometimes I'm so deeply buried under self-reproaches that I long for a word of comfort to help me dig myself out again.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl tags: comfort, sadness
36 people liked it like “Paper is more patient than man.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl tags: humanity, life, thoughts, writing
36 people liked it like “In the book Soldiers on the Home Front, I was greatly struck by the fact that in childbirth alone, women commonly suffer more pain, illness and misery than any war hero ever does. An what's her reward for enduring all that pain? She gets pushed aside when she's disfigured by birth, her children soon leave, hear beauty is gone. Women, who struggle and suffer pain to ensure the continuation of the human race, make much tougher and more courageous soldiers than all those big-mouthed freedom-fighting heroes put together.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl tags: motherhood, women-s-strength
34 people liked it like “The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl tags: god, heavens, inspirational, nature, spiritual, wisdom
33 people liked it like “This is a photograph of me as I wish I looked all the time. Then I might have a chance of getting in Hollywood.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl tags: inspirational
33 people liked it like “How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl tags: inspirational-life
32 people liked it like “Who has inflicted this upon us? Who has made us Jews different from all other people? Who has allowed us to suffer so terribly up till now? It is God that has made us as we are, but it will be God, too, who will raise us up again. If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example. Who knows, it might even be our religion from which the world and all peoples learn good, and for that reason and that reason alone do we have to suffer now. We can never become just Netherlanders, or just English, or representatives of any country for that matter; we will always remain Jews, but we want to, too.”
― Anne Frank tags: god, holocaust, jewish-identity
32 people liked it like “This week I've been reading a lot and doing little work. That's the way things ought to be. That's surely the road to success.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl tags: reading
31 people liked it like “But I won't bore you any longer on the subject of old men. It won't make things any better and all my plans of revenge (such as disconnecting the lamp, shutting the door, hiding his clothes) must be abandoned in order to keep the peace. Oh, I'm becoming so sensible! ...”
― Anne Frank tags: boring, old-men, revenge
30 people liked it like “I get cross, then sad, and finally end up turning my heart inside out, and keep trying to find a way to become what I'd like to be and what I could be if....if only there were no other people in the world.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl tags: life
29 people liked it like “I'm sentimental--I know. I'm desperate and silly--I know that too. Oh, help me!”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl tags: desire, love
29 people liked it like “I want be a writer”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
28 people liked it like “I think it's odd that grown-ups quarrel so easily and so often and about such petty matters. Up to now I always thought bickering was just something children did and that they outgrew it.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl tags: bickering, fighting, grown-ups
26 people liked it like “I'm currently in the middle of a depression. I couldn't really tell you what set it off, but I think it stems from my cowardice, which confronts me at every turn.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl tags: depression
25 people liked it like “I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness. I hear the ever-approaching thunder, which will destroy us too. I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
25 people liked it like “I also have a brand-new prescription for gunfire jitters: When the shooting gets loud, proceed to the nearest wooden staircase. Run up and down a few times, making sure to stumble at least once. What with the scratches and the noise of running and falling, you won't even be able to hear the shooting, much less worry about it. Yours truly has put this magic formula to use, with great success!”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank tags: humor
24 people liked it like “Riches, prestige, everything can be lost. But the happiness in your heart can only be dimmed; it will always be there as long as you live, to make you happy again.
Whenever you're feeling lonely or sad, try going to the loft on a beautiful day and looking outside. Not at the houses and the rooftops, but at the sky. As long as you can look fearlessly at the sky, you'll know that your pure within and will find happiness once more.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl tags: anne-frank, diary-of-a-young-girl
23 people liked it like “I finally realized that I must do my schoolwork to keep from being ignorant, to get on in life, to become a journalist, because that’s what I want! I know I can write ..., but it remains to be seen whether I really have talent ...
And if I don’t have the talent to write books or newspaper articles, I can always write for myself. But I want to achieve more than that. I can’t imagine living like Mother, Mrs. van Daan and all the women who go about their work and are then forgotten. I need to have something besides a husband and children to devote myself to! ... I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I’ve never met. I want to go on living even after my death! And that’s why I’m so grateful to God for having given me this gift, which I can use to develop myself and to express all that’s inside me! When I write I can shake off all my cares. My sorrow disappears, my spirits are revived! But, and that’s a big question, will I ever be able to write something great, will I ever become a journalist or a writer?”
― Anne Frank
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“I can't imagine how anyone can say: "I'm weak," and then remain so.
After all, if you know it, why not fight against it, why not try to train your character? The answer was: "Because it's so much easier not to!”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
22 people liked it like “An empty day, though clear and bright,
Is just as dark as any night.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
20 people liked it like “Love, what is love? I don't think you can really put it into words. Love is understanding someone, caring for him, sharing his joys and sorrows. This eventually includes physical love. You've shared something, given something away and received something in return, whether or not you're married, whether or not you have a baby. Losing your virtue doesn't matter, as long as you know that for as long as you live you'll have someone at your side who understands you, and who doesn't have to be shared with anyone else!”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
19 people liked it like “As long as this exists I thought, and I may live to see it, this sunshine, the cloudless skies, while this lasts, I cannot be unhappy.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
19 people liked it like “The young are not afraid of telling the
truth.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
17 people liked it like “Podrán callarnos, pero no pueden impedir que tengamos nuestras propias opiniones.”
― Anne Frank, Diario
17 people liked it like “In the future I'm going to devote less time to sentimentality and more time to reality.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
15 people liked it like “but i've slammed the door to my inner self; if he ever wants to force the lock again, he'll have to use a harder crowbar!”
― Anne Frank tags: heartbreak, love
15 people liked it like “Up till now I always thought bickering was just something children did and they outgrew it. Of course, there's sometimes a reason to have a 'real' quarrel, but the verbal exchanges that take place here are just plain bickering. I should be used to the fact that these squabbles are daily occurrences, but I'm not and never will be as long as I'm the subject of nearly every discussion. (They refer to these as 'discussions instead of 'quarrels', but Germans don't know the difference!)”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
14 people liked it like “Don't be too assuming, it doesn't get you anywhere.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
14 people liked it like “I am what a romantic movie is to a profound thinker - a mere diversion, a comic interlude, something that is soon forgotten.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
14 people liked it like “leave me in peace, let me sleep one night at least without my pillow being wet with tears, my eyes burning and my head throbbing”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
13 people liked it like “Once again St. Nicholas Day
Has even come to our hideaway;
It won't be quite as fun, I fear,
As the happy day we had last year.
Then we were hopeful, no reason to doubt
That optimism would win the bout,
And by the time this year came round,
We'd all be free, and safe and sound.
Still, let's not forget it's St. Nicholas Day,
Though we've nothing left to give away.
We'll have to find something else to do:
So everyone please look in their shoe!”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
12 people liked it like “One gets on better in life if one is not over modest.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
12 people liked it like “Misfortunes never come singly.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl tags: reality-check, truth-of-life
12 people liked it like “Quienes no escriben no saben lo bonito que es escribir. Antes siempre me lamentaba por no saber dibujar...”
― Anne Frank tags: anna-frank, anne-frank, el-diario-de-ana-frank
12 people liked it like “Who knows, perhaps he doesn't care about me at all and look at the others in just the same way.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
12 people liked it like “Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl tags: books
12 people liked it like “I wonder if anyone can ever succeed in making their children content.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
11 people liked it like “If I talk, everyone thinks I'm showing off; when I'm silent they think I'm ridiculous, rude if I answer, sly if I get a good idea, lazy if I'm tired, selfish if I eat a mouthful more than I should, stupid, cowardly, crafty, etc., etc.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
11 people liked it like “In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
11 people liked it like “The best remedy for those who are frightened, lovely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere they can be alone, alone with the sky, nature and God. For then and only then can you feel that everything is as it should be and that God wants people to be happy amid nature's beauty and simplicity.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl tags: god, life, nature
10 people liked it like “What I condemn are our system of values and the men who don't acknowledge how great, difficult, but ultimately beautiful women's share in society is.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl tags: empowerment, society, women
10 people liked it like “Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year old school girl. Oh well, it doesn’t matter. I feel like writing.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl tags: life, writing
10 people liked it like “Why are millions spent on the war each day, while not a penny is available for ... artists or the poor? Why do people have to starve when mountians of food are rotting away in other parts of the world? Oh, why are people so crazy?”
― Anne Frank
9 people liked it like “It is becoming a bad dream-- in the daytime as well as at night. I see him nearly all the time and can't get at him, I mustn't show anything, must remain gay while I'm really in despair.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl tags: heartache, love
9 people liked it like “Let's not talk about it any more, but if you still want anything please write to me about it, because I can say what I mean much better on paper.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
9 people liked it like “Riches can all be lost, but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled, and it will bring you happiness again, as long as you live.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl tags: anne-frank, happiness, heart
9 people liked it like “People can so easily be tempted by slackness... and by money.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
9 people liked it like “You must work and do good, not be lazy and gamble, if you wish to earn happiness. Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a You
“Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.”
― Anne Frank tags: inspirational
8 people liked it like “I have always been the dunce, the never-do-well of the family, I've always have to pay double for my deeds, first with the scolding and then again because of the way my feelings are hurt.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
8 people liked it like “As long as you're in the food business, why not make sweets?”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl tags: food, sweets, work
8 people liked it like “It's an odd idea for someone like me to keep a diary; not only because I have never done so before, but because it seems to me that neither I - nor for that matter anyone else - will be interested in the unbosomings of a thirteen-year-old school girl.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl tags: diary
8 people liked it like “Think of all the beauty still left in the world and be happy.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl tags: anne-frank, beauty, happy, holocaust, inspirational, life, war, young
8 people liked it like “We aren't allowed to have any opinions. People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but it doesn't stop you having your own opinion. Even if people are still very young, they shouldn't be prevented from saying what they think.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
8 people liked it like “Paper has more patience than people”
― Anne Frank
7 people liked it like “I live in a crazy time.”
― Anne Frank
7 people liked it like “There's one golden rule to keep before you: laugh about everything and don't bother yourself about the others!”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
7 people liked it like “It must be awful to feel you're not needed.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
7 people liked it like “Then I fall asleep with a stupid feeling of wishing to be different from what I am or from what I want to be; perhaps to behave differently from the way I want to behave or do behave.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
6 people liked it like “Who else but me is ever going to read these letters?”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl tags: diary, innocence, irony
6 people liked it like “...There's in people simply an urge to destroy, an urge to kill, to murder and rage, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated, and grown will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl tags: war
6 people liked it like “I keep my ideals because in spite of everything I still believe that people are good at heart.”
― Anne Frank
5 people liked it like “Crying can bring relief as long as you don't cry alone.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl tags: aloneness, crying, relief, togetherness
5 people liked it like “Why do we trust one another so little? I know there must be a reason, but still I sometimes think it's horrible that you find you can never really confide in people, even in those who are nearest to you.”
― Anne Frank
5 people liked it like “I had an occasional flash of understanding, but then got selfishly wrapped up again in my own problems and pleasures.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
5 people liked it like “How can I make it clear to him that what appears easy and attractive will drag him down into the depths, depths where there is no comfort to be found, no friends and no beauty, depths from which it is almost impossible to raise oneself?”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
5 people liked it like “I can't let them see my doubts, or the wounds they've inflicted on me.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
5 people liked it like “I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are really good at heart.”
― Anne Frank
5 people liked it like “He clings to his solitude, to his affected indifference and his grown-up ways, but it's just an act, so as never, never to show his real feelings.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
5 people liked it like “Asombra que yo no haya abandonado aún todas mis esperanzas, puesto que parecen absurdas e irrealizables. Sin embargo, me aferro a ellas a pesar de todo, porque sigo creyendo en la bondad innata del hombre.”
― Anne Frank, Diario
5 people liked it like “I had to hold my head up high and put a bold face on things, but the thoughts keep coming anyways.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
4 people liked it like “don’t believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is every bit as guilty; otherwise, people and nations would have re- belled long ago! There’s a destructive urge in people, the urge to rage, murder and kill. And until all of humanity, without exception, undergoes a metamorphosis, wars will continue to be waged, and everything that has been carefully built up, cultivated and grown will be cut down and destroyed, only to start allover again!”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
4 people liked it like “I see the eight of us in the Annex as if we were a patch of blue sky surrounded by menacing black clouds. The perfectly round spot on which we’re standing is still safe, but the clouds are moving in on us, and the ring between us and the approaching danger is being pulled tighter and tighter. We’re surrounded by darkness and danger, and in our desperate search for a way out we keep bumping into each other. We look at the fighting down below and the peace and beauty up above. In the meantime, we’ve been cut off by the dark mass of clouds, so that we can go neither up nor down. It looms before us like an impenetrable wall, trying to crush us, but not yet able to. I can only cry out and implore, “Oh, ring, ring, open wide and let us out!”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
4 people liked it like “The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
4 people liked it like “If I'm engrossed in a book, I have to rearrange my thoughts before I can mingle with other people, because otherwise they might think I was strange.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl tags: books, reading
4 people liked it like “A person can be lonely even if he is loved by many people, because he is still not the "One and Only" to anyone.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank tags: anne-frank, diary
4 people liked it like “I feel wicked sleeping in a warm bed, while my dearest friends have been knocked down or have fallen into a gutter somewhere out in the cold night. I get frightened when I think of close friends who have now been delivered into the hands of the cruelest brutes that walk the earth. And all because they are Jews!”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl tags: anne-frank, diary-of-a-young-girl, jewish, life, war
4 people liked it like “It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because inspite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will distroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if i look up into the heavans, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again. In the mean time, I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the day will come when I shall be able to carry them out." ~Anne Frank”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
4 people liked it like “I was too happy for words and I believe he was as well.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
4 people liked it like “I argued that talking is a female trait and that I would do my best to keep it under control, but that I would never be able to break myself of the habit, since my mother talked as much as I did, if not more, and that there's not much you can do about inherited traits.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
4 people liked it like “So why am I often miserable about what goes on here? Shouldn't I be happy, contented, and glad.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
3 people liked it like “I have an intense need to be alone. Father has noticed I'm not my usual self, but I can't tell him what's bothering me. All I want to do is scream 'let me be, leave me alone!”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
3 people liked it like “I've drawn myself apart from them all; I am my own skipper and later on I shall see where I come to land”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl tags: independent
3 people liked it like “Sleep makes the silence and the terrible fear go by more quickly, helps pass the time, since it's impossible to kill.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl tags: sleep, time-passing
3 people liked it like “No matter what I'm doing, I cant help thinking about those who are gone. I catch myself laughing and remember that it's a disgrace to be so cheerful... This gloom will pass.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
3 people liked it like “Escrever um diário é uma experiência realmente estranha para uma pessoa como eu. Não só porque nunca escrevi nada antes, mas também porque me parece que, mais tarde, nem eu nem ninguém estará interessado nos devaneios de uma rapariga de treze anos.”
― Anne Frank, O diário de Anne Frank - Versão definitiva
3 people liked it like “Leave me alone, let me have at least one night when I don't cry myself to sleep with eyes burning and my head pounding. Let me get away, away from everything, away from this world!”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
3 people liked it like “Виждам как светът бавно все повече заприличва на пустиня,все по-силно чувам приближаващата се гръмотевична буря,която ще унищожи и нас,съчувствам на мъката на милиони хора,но като погледна към небето,си мисля,че всичко все пак ще се оправи,че тази жестокост ще свърши,че ще настъпят спокойствие и мир в света.
Дотогава трябва да пазя идеалите си.Във времената,които идват,може би все пак ще мога да ги осъществя.”
― Anne Frank
3 people liked it like “Love, what is love? I don't think you can really put it into words. Love is understanding someone, caring for him, sharing his joys and sorrows.”
― Anne Frank
3 people liked it like “So much has happened it's as if the whole world had suddenly turned upside down.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
3 people liked it like “Jews and Christians wait, the whole world waits,and there are many who wait for death”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl tags: anne
3 people liked it like “I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains. I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
― Anne Frank
3 people liked it like “Older people have formed their opinions about everything, and don't waver before they act. It's twice as hard for us young ones to hold our ground, and maintain our opinions, in a time when all ideals are being shattered and destroyed, when people are showing their worst side, and do not know whether to believe in truth and right and God.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
3 people liked it like “I can shake off everything if I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn. But, and that is the greatest question, will I ever be able to write anything great, will I ever become a journalist or a writer? I hope so, oh, I hope so very much, for I can recapture everything when I write, my thoughts, my ideas and my fantasies.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
3 people liked it like “I want to go on living even after my death! And therefore I am grateful to God for giving me this gift, this possibility of developing myself and of writing, of expressing all that is in me.”
― Anne Frank
3 people liked it like “I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
3 people liked it like “Deep down I know I could never be that innocent again, however much I'd like to be.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
2 people liked it like “No one is spared. The sick, the elderly, children, babies, and pregnant women - all marched to their death.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
2 people liked it like “It is the silence that frightens me so in the evenings and at night...I can't tell you how oppressive it is never to be able to go outdoors, also I am very afraid that we will be discovered and be shot.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
2 people liked it like “What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
2 people liked it like “But it's the same with all my friends, just fun and joking, nothing more. I can never bring myself to talk of anything outside the common round.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
2 people liked it like “Am I really so bad-mannered, conceited, headstrong, pushing, stupid, lazy, etc., etc., as they all say? Oh, of course not. I have my faults, just like everyone else, I kniw that, but they thoroughly exaggerate everything.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
2 people liked it like “I misjudged her, wasn't mature enough to understand how difficult it was for her.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
2 people liked it like “Why do I always think and dream the most awful things and want to scream in terror?”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
2 people liked it like “We were caught in a vicious circle of unpleasantness and sorrow. Not a very happy period for either us, but at leasst it's coming to an end.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
2 people liked it like “beauty remains, even in misfortune”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl tags: inspirational
2 people liked it like “It's easier to whisper your feelings than to trumpet them forth out loud”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
2 people liked it like “It looms before us, an impenetrable wall, trying to crush us, but not yet able to.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank
2 people liked it like “I don't think building sand castles in the air is such a terrible thing to do, as long as you don't take it too seriously.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl tags: sand-castles
2 people liked it like “Chins up, stick it out, better times will come.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
2 people liked it like “A person can be lonely even if he is loved by many people, because he us still not the "One and Only" to anyone.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
2 people liked it like “I've found that there is always some beauty left — in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can help you. Look at these things, then find yourself again, and God, and then you regain your balance.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
2 people liked it like “I have the feeling now that Peter and I share a secret. If he looks at me with those eyes that laugh and wink, then it’s just as if a little light goes on inside me. I hope it will remain like this and that we may have many, many more glorious times together!”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
2 people liked it like “What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
2 people liked it like “I can't help telling you that I've begin to feel deserted.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
2 people liked it like “I could spend hours telling you about the suffering the war has brought, but I'd only make myself more miserable.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
2 people liked it like “...but I don't think building sand castles in the air is such a terrible thing to do, as long as you don't take ti too seriously.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl tags: anne-frank, the-diary-of-a-young-girl
2 people liked it like “He clings to his masculinity, his solitude and his feigned indif- ference so he can maintain his role, so he’ll never, ever have to show his feelings. Poor Peter, how long can he keep it up? Won’t he explode from this superhuman effort?”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
2 people liked it like “Just as my heart sinks every time I hear her harsh words, that's how her heart sank when she realised there was no more love between us.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
2 people liked it like “Znam što hoću, imam cilj, stajalište, imam vjeru i ljubav. Neka budem ono što jesam i bit ću zadovoljna. Znam da sam žena, žena s unutarnjom snagom i obiljem hrabrosti.”
― Anne Frank, The diary of Anne Frank
2 people liked it like “‎È un gran miracolo che io non abbia rinunciato a tutte le mie speranze perché esse sembrano assurde e inattuabili. Le conservo ancora, nonostante tutto, perché continuo a credere nell'intima bontà dell'uomo. Mi è impossibile costruire tutto sulla base della morte, della miseria, della confusione. Vedo il mondo mutarsi lentamente in un deserto, odo sempre più forte l'avvicinarsi del rombo che ucciderà noi pure, partecipo al dolore di milioni di uomini, eppure quando guardo il cielo, penso che tutto si volgerà nuovamente al bene, che anche questa spietata durezza cesserà, che ritorneranno l'ordine, la pace e la serenità.”
― Anne Frank, Il diario di Anna Frank
2 people liked it like “I only look at her as a mother, and she doesn't succeed in being that to me.”
― Anne Frank tags: thediaryofayounggirl
2 people liked it like “Ik wil geen aanbidders, maar vrienden, geen bewonderaars voor een vleiend lachje maar voor optreden en karakter. Ik weet heel goed dat dan de kring om me heen veel kleiner zou zijn. Maar wat hindert dat als ik nog maar een paar mensen, oprechte mensen, overhoud?”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
2 people liked it like “It seems to me that, later on, neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the chatterings of a 13-year-old schoolgirl…”
― Anne Frank
2 people liked it like “Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.”
― Anne Frank
2 people liked it like “Ajungi să cunoști bine oamenii abia după ce te-ai certat cu ei o dată. Abia atunci poți să le judeci caracterul!”
― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex tags: anne-frank, jews
2 people liked it like “Peter Wessel and Peter Van Daan have grown into one Peter, who is beloved and good, and for whom I long desperately.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl tags: desire, love
2 people liked it like “Chipul lui mi-a revenit așa de limpede în memorie, încât acum știu că nimeni altcineva nu va putea rămâne atât de prezent în mine.”
― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex
2 people liked it like “We are shut up here, shut away from the world, in fear and anxiety, especially just lately. Why, then, would we who love each other remain apart? Why should we wait until we've reached suitable age? Why should we bother?”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
2 people liked it like “Dimineața suntem normali, după-amiaza cam tot așa, cu unele excepții, dar seara dorința de peste zi, fericirea și deliciile tuturor dăților precedente redevin vii și nu mai facem altceva decât să ne gândim unul la celălalt.”
― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex
2 people liked it like “E un mare miracol că n-am renunțat la toate speranțele mele, căci ele par absurde și irealizabile. Cu toate astea, eu țin la ele, fiindcă tot mai cred în bunătatea interioară a oamenilor.”
― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex
1 person liked it like “Fine specimens of humanity, those Germans, and to think I'm actually one of them! No, that's not true, Hitler took away our nationality long ago.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
1 person liked it like “Nu degeaba se spune despre mine că sunt un mănunchi de contradicții!”
― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex
1 person liked it like “Sigur, eu sunt un clovn amuzant pentru o după-amiază, după care toți se satură de mine pentru o lună întreagă.”
― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex
1 person liked it like “Sunt exact ce este un film de dragoste pentru oamenii profunzi, o simplă distracție, un divertisment ocazional, ceva ce se uită repede, nu ceva prost, dar nici neapărat bun.”
― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex
1 person liked it like “Sunt obișnuită să nu fiu luată în serios.”
― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex
1 person liked it like “I feel wicked sleeping in a warm bed, while somewhere out there my dearest friends are dropping from exhaustion or being knocked to the ground.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
1 person liked it like “I get frightened myself when I think of close friends who are now at the mercy of the cruellest monsters ever to stalk the earth.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
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“Time heals all wounds.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl tags: inspirational
1 person liked it like “Ik word zelf bang als ik aan allen denk met wie ik me altijd zo innig verbonden voelde en die nu overgeleverd zijn aan de wreedste beulen die er ooit bestaan hebben.
En dat alles omdat ze joden zijn.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
1 person liked it like “The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
1 person liked it like “Peter needs tenderness. For the first time in his life he’s discovered a girl; for the first time he’s seen that even the biggest pests also have an inner self and a heart, and are transformed as soon as they’re alone with you.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
1 person liked it like “This of all the misery in the world and be thankful that you are not sharing in it.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
1 person liked it like “Maar één ding weet ik nu en dat is dit: je leert de mensen pas goed kennen als je een keer echte ruzie met ze gemaakt hebt. Pas dan kun je hun karakter beoordelen.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
1 person liked it like “der man hat einen grossen geist und ist so klein von taten!”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
1 person liked it like “Riches can be lost, but happiness in you heart can only be veiled, and it will still bring happiness again, as long as you live”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
1 person liked it like “Anne is a crazy child, but i do live in a crazy life, and under still crazier circumstances”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
1 person liked it like “Er bestaat geen grotere vijandschap op de wereld dan tussen Duitsers en joden.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
1 person liked it like “The only way to truly know a person is to argue with them. For when the argue in full swing, they reveal their true character.”
― Anne Frank
1 person liked it like “Things were different when I was growing up.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
1 person liked it like “I don't want to be cross, love cannot be forced. There were tears in her eyes as she left the room.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
1 person liked it like “I have now reached the stage that I don't care much whether I live or die. The world will still keep on turning without me; what is going to happen, will happen, and anyway it's no good to resist.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
1 person liked it like “How wonderful that no one need wait a single moment to improve the world.”
― Anne Frank tags: procrastination
1 person liked it like “A person of fifty-four who is still so pedantic and small-minded must be so by nature, and will never improve.”
― Anne Frank
1 person liked it like “I'll show then that Anne Frank wasn't born yesterday”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl tags: courage
1 person liked it like “Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated.Children come back from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return from shopping to find their houses sealed, their families gone.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
1 person liked it like “No one can keep out of conflict, the entire world is at war, and even though the allies are doing better, the end is nowhere in sight.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
1 person liked it like “I'm seething with rage, yet I can't show it.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
1 person liked it like “I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
1 person liked it like “I have an intense need to be alone.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
1 person liked it like “All day long I hear nothing but what an exasperating child I am, and although I laugh it off and pretend not to mind, I wish I could ask God to give me another personality, one that doesn't antagonize everyone.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
1 person liked it like “It still makes me happy to think back to those words and that look”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
1 person liked it like “All's fair in love and war.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
1 person liked it like “I do my best to please everyone, more than they'd ever suspect in a million years. When I'm upstairs, I try to laugh it off because I don't want them to see my troubles.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
1 person liked it like “I was suffocating even before we left the house, but no one bothered to ask me how I felt.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
1 person liked it like “It's hard to tell the truth, and yet the truth is that she's the one who's rejected me.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
1 person liked it like “We just wanted to get out of there, to get away and reach our destination in safety. Nothing else mattered.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
1 person liked it like “You seem it's the silence that makes me so nervous during the evenings and nights.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“We jumped for joy. After the awful events of yesterday, finally something good happens and brings us...hope! Hope for an end to the war, hope for peace.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
1 person liked it like “I have in my mind’s eye an image of what a perfect mother and wife should be; and in her whom I must call “Mother” I find no trace of that image.”
― Anne Frank tags: thediaryofayounggirl
1 person liked it like “There is a saying that "paper is more patient than man";it came back to me on one of my slightly melancholy days,while I sat chin in hand,feeling too bored and limp even to make up my mind whether to go out or stay at home. Yes, there is no doubt that paper is patient and as I don't intend to show this cardboard-covered notebook,bearing the proud name of"diary",to anyone,unless I find a real friend,boy or girl,probably nobody cares.And now I come to the root of the matter,the reason for my starting a diary:it is that I have no such real friend.
Let me put it more clearly,since no one will believe that a girl of thirteen feels herself quite alone in the world,nor is it so.I have darling parents and a sister of sixteen.I know about thirty people whom one might call friends--I have strings of boy friends,anxious to catch a glimpse of me and who,failing that,peep at me through mirrors in class.I have relations,aunts and uncles,who are darlings too,a good home,no--I don't seem to lack anything.But it's the same with all my friends,just fun and joking,nothing more.I can never bring myself to talk of anything outside the common round.We don't seem to be able to get any closer,that is the root of the trouble.Perhaps I lack confidence,but anyway,there it is,a stubborn fact and I don't seem to be able to do anything about it.”
― Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl tags: thought-provoking
1 person liked it like “El papel es mas paciente que los hombres.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
1 person liked it like “Despite everything, I believe people are really good at heart.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl tags: anne, believe, frank, good, heart
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― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
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― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
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― Anne Frank
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― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
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― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
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― Anne Frank
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― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
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― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
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― Anne Frank, Il diario di Anna Frank
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― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
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― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex
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― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex
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― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex
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― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex
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― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex
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― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex
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― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex
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― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex
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― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex
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― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex
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― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
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― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex
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― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex
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― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex
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― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex
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It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.
Annelies Marie Frank (12 June 1929 – February/March 1945) was a Jewish diarist and aspiring writer, who died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
The Diary (12 June 1942 - 1 August 1944)[edit]

I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too, I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that this cruelty too shall end, and that peace & tranquility will return once again.

People will always follow a good example; be the one to set a good example, then it won't be long before the others follow...

I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death! And that's why I'm grateful to God for having given me this gift, which I can use to develop and to express all that's inside me!
For someone like me, it is a very strange habit to write in a diary. Not only that I have never written before, but it strikes me that later neither I, nor anyone else, will care for the outpouring of a thirteen year old schoolgirl.
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
A "food cycle" is a period in which we have only one particular dish or type of vegetable to eat. For a long time we ate nothing but endive. Endive with sand, endive without sand, endive with mashed potatoes, endive-and-mashed-potato casserole...
Forgive me, Kitty, they don't call me a bundle of contradictions for nothing!
God never deserted our people. Right through the ages there were Jews. Through the ages they suffered, but it also made us strong.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before beginning to improve the world.
Ik geloof nooit dat de oorlog de schuld is alleen van de grote mannen, van de regeerders en kapitalisten. O neen, de kleine man doet het net zo goed graag, anders zouden de volkeren er toch al lang tegen in opstand zijn gekomen! Er is nu eenmaal in de mensen een drang tot vernieling, een drang tot doodslaan, tot vermoorden en razen en zolang de gehele mensheid, zonder uitzondering, geen grote metamorphose heeft ondergaan, zal de oorlog woeden, zal alles wat opgebouwd, aangekweekt en gegroeid is, weer geschonden en vernietigd worden, waarna de mensheid opnieuw moet beginnen.
I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as keen, otherwise the people of the world would have risen in revolt long ago! There is an urge and rage in people to destroy, to kill, to murder, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated and grown, will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again.
May 3, 1944
I believe that in the course of the next century [as dated from June 13, 1944] the notion that it's a woman's duty to have children will change and make way for the respect and admiration of all women, who bear their burdens without complaint or a lot of pompous words!
I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains... My advice is : "Go outside, to the fields, enjoy nature and the sunshine, go out and try to recapture happiness in yourself and in God. Think of all the beauty that's still left in and around you and be happy!"
Variant translations:
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
Think of all the beauty that is still left in and around you and be happy!
I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death! And that's why I'm grateful to God for having given me this gift, which I can use to develop and to express all that's inside me!
I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.
I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too, I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more. (Saturday 15th of July, 1944)
I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.
Is discord going to show itself while we are still fighting, is the Jew once again worth less than another? Oh, it is sad, very sad, that once more, for the umpteenth time, the old truth is confirmed: "What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews."
It's difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart. I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery, and death. I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too, I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that this cruelty too shall end, and that peace & tranquility will return once again.
15 July 1944; Variant translations:
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery, and death...and yet...I think...this cruelty will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again.
Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.
However, during the third class he'd finally had enough. "Anne Frank, as punishment for talking in class, write an essay entitled, Quack, Quack, Quack, Said Mistress Chatterback."
Writing a story about a teacher who is scolding her for being talkative in class. Variant translations :
Quack, Quack, Quack, Said Miss Quackenbush.
Quack, Quack, Quack, Said Miss Natterbeak.
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but it doesn't stop you having your own opinions. Even if people are still very young, they shouldn't be prevented from saying what they think.
People will always follow a good example; be the one to set a good example, then it won't be long before the others follow... How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway... And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. As long as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.
The only way to truly know a person is to argue with them. For when they argue in full swing, then they reveal their true character.
We all live with the objective of being happy, our lives are all different and yet the same.
Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?
I've found that there is always some beauty left — in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can help you. Look at these things, then find yourself again, and God, and then you regain your balance.
And whoever is happy will make others happy too. He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!
Variant translation: Whoever is happy will make others happy, too.
I trust to luck and do nothing but work, hoping that all will end well.
Quotes about Frank[edit]
Alphabetized by author
Anne Frank's legacy is still very much alive and it can address us fully, especially at a time when the map of the world is changing and when dark passions are awakening within people.
Vaclav Havel, as quoted in "Anne's words still strengthen spirits" by Joyce Apsel in The St. Petersburg Times (26 January 2000)
Of the multitude who throughout history have spoken for human dignity in times of great suffering and loss, no voice is more compelling than that of Anne Frank.
John F. Kennedy, as quoted in "Anne's words still strengthen spirits" by Joyce Apsel in The St. Petersburg Times (26 January 2000)
One single Anne Frank moves us more than the countless others who suffered just as she did, but whose faces have remained in the shadows. Perhaps it is better that way: If we were capable of taking in the suffering of all those people, we would not be able to live.
Primo Levi, as quoted in "Anne's words still strengthen spirits" by Joyce Apsel in The St. Petersburg Times (26 January 2000)
Some of us read Anne Frank's diary on Robben Island and derived much encouragement of it.
Nelson Mandela, as quoted in "Anne's words still strengthen spirits" by Joyce Apsel in The St. Petersburg Times (26 January 2000)