Quotes from Annejet van der Zijl

Wie Annie Schmidt altijd als lief en aardig heeft ervaren, zal zijn mening grondig moeten herzien.

Want als je geen toekomst meer hebt, wat blijft er anders over dan dromen van het verleden.

And if there was one thing that was truly American, it was the belief that it was always possible to start again.

He liked to introduce himself to his new victims with: "I am Kees Kaptein, the greatest Jew crusher in the Netherlands!

Psychotherapy Frank Koerselman for years. It was about what he called "the pampered society." He wrote that modern man suffered from too much vanity and a lack of self-reflection and had forgotten how to deal with frustrations and setbacks in a healthy way.

March 1, 1943, about one year after the Wannsee Conference, when the Entjudung, the "Aryanization" of Holland, was virtually complete.

If one has the will and persistance, one CAN do things.

Leone, P., M. Poshka, and V. E. Norton Jr. Around Chautauqua Lake: 50 Years of Photographs 1875–1925. Westfield, NY: Chautauqua Region Press, 1997.

Take life as easy as you can," she wrote to Bernhard in January, "health is the best of all gifts.

Those who can best cope with setbacks have the greatest chance of fortune.

The average life expectancy of a fighter pilot was no more than fifty to sixty flight hours.

Roosevelt may have been a Republican, but he was a lot more sensitive to the changing times than his predecessor. He started regulating banks, the food industry, and railway trusts; introduced higher taxes; and for the first time consulted the trade unions, which the government had looked upon with suspicion up to then.

Weet je... misschien... nee, niet misschien, ik weet het wel heel zeker: een mens redt het alleen maar als er een andere mens is die van hem houdt.

It's not the strongest of the species that survives, neither is it the most intelligent that survives. It is the most adaptable to change.

modern man suffered from too much vanity and a lack of self-reflection and had forgotten how to deal with frustrations and setbacks in a healthy way.

Those who can best cope with setbacks have the greatest chance of fortune. My conclusion was that it's clearly worth looking into the way you deal with bad luck.

Everyone has the right to live her own life, NO parent can destroy the youth and joy of their child. They use all kinds of excuses to try and cover their selfishness but if the daughter or son do take the bit in their teeth and LIVE the mother always gets on allright.

There is so much sadness and trouble in the world, one's heart is torn all the time, also one's purse, but this life is a school.

For if you no longer have a future, what else is there left but dreams of the past?

Imagine that your own children, who you brought into the world, just walk past you. It's enough to make anybody crazy.

If one has the will and persistence, one CAN do things . . . always try every possible way, and if you don't see a way, ask for help . . . COURAGE ALL THE TIME.

To my surprise, nineteenth-century folk, always presented as Puritan and narrow-minded, turned out also to be energetic, tough, and sociable. It made me realize that there are major social and personal advantages to be had if people are capable of controlling themselves, being disciplined, and, if necessary, sacrificing themselves for the greater good. In that respect, we people of today might be able to learn more from the Victorians than we think.

Without protest, officers in The Hague supervised the transport of Jewish prisoners, and some even agreed to work as guards in Westerbork.

web of a drunken spider.