Anne Frank Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.”
-- Anne FrankSource : Anne Frank (1959). “Works”
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“The young are not afraid of telling the truth.”
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“Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because the regret is stronger than gratitude.”
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“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
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“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!”
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“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.”
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“You can always give something, even if it is only kindness.”
-- Anne FrankSource : Anne Frank (1984). “Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex”, Doubleday Books
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“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 FrankSource : Anne Frank (2008). “Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings, Revised Edition”, p.114, Bantam
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“Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.”
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“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.”
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“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
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“Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.”
-- Anne FrankSource : Anne Frank (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.163, Hamilton Books
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“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.”
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“You can be lonely even when you are loved by many people, since you are still not anybody's one and only.”
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“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!”
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“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 FrankSource : Anne Frank, General Press (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.107, GENERAL PRESS
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“Because paper has more patience than people.”
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“In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.”
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“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
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“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!”
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“Who has inflicted this upon us? Who has made us Jews different from all other people? Who has allowed us to suffer so terribly uptill 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.”
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“Bolkenstein, a Minister, was speaking on the Dutch programme from London, and he said that they ought to make a collection of diaries and letters after the war. Of course, they all made a rush at my diary immediately. Just imagine how interesting it would be if I were to publish a romance of the "Secret Annexe." The title alone would be enough to make people think it was a detective story.”
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“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.”
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“People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion.”
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“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.”
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“As long as this exists, this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can I be sad?”
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“I have often been downcast, but never in despair;”
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“Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?”
-- Anne Frank
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