How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.
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.
In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Crying can bring relief, as long as you don’t cry alone.
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.
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 can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.
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.
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
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.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.
As long as you’re in the food business, why not make sweets?
I firmly believe that nature can bring comfort to all who suffer.
The Diary of a Young Girl – This book fills you with sadness. I like this book
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.
I’ll show then that Anne Frank wasn’t born yesterday
Work, love, courage and hope,Make me good and help me cope!
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!
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.
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.
Sometimes I’m so deeply buried under self-reproaches that I long for a word of comfort to help me dig myself out again.
I want friends, not admirers. People who respect me for my character and my deeds, not my flattering smile. The circle around me would be much smaller, but what does that matter, as long as they’re sincere?
The reason for my starting a diary is that I have no real friend.
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.
I’m sentimental–I know. I’m desperate and silly–I know that too. Oh, help me!
Peter Wessel and Peter Van Daan have grown into one Peter, who is beloved and good, and for whom I long desperately.
Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.
It’s just that when you’re standing beside an open window at twilight, you can say more toeach other than in bright sunshine. It’s also easier to whisper your feelings than toshout them from the rooftops.
Despite everything, I believe people are really good at heart.
But feelings can’t be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem.
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!
You only really get to know a person after a fight. Only then can you judge their true character
The weak fall, but the strong will remain and never go under!
Sleep makes the silence and the terrible fear go by more quickly, helps pass the time, since it’s impossible to kill.
Who else but me is ever going to read these letters?
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.
There is a saying that, paper is more patient than man.
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.
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.
…if I only knew how much longer we had to put up with each other’s company, I’d start counting the days.
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment we can start now start slowly changing the world!
We all live with the objective of being happy our lives are all different and yet the same.
We all live with the objective of being happy our lives are all different and yet the same.
We all live with the objective of being happy our lives are all different and yet the same.
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can bel How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is I
I keep my ideals because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Think of all the beauty that’s still left in and around you and be happy!
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.
I simply can’t build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death… I think… peace and tranquillity will return again.
The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
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.
I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.
Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.
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.
Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‘a quiet conscience makes one strong!’
He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!
I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.
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’ve reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and I can’t do anything to change events anyway.