Quotes from Anne Frank

Thursday, 6 July, 1944 ... Quite honestly, 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! This reply rather discouraged me. Easy? Does that mean that a lazy, deceitful life is an easy life? Oh no, that can't be true, it mustn't be true, people can so easily be tempted by slackness...and money.

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!

I don't want followers, but friends, admirers who fall not for a flattering smile but for what one does and for one's character.

Honestly, you needn't think it's easy to be the badly brought up central figure of a hypocritical family in hiding.

I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met.

the dead reseave more flowers than the living for regret is stronger than gratitude

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.

Und dann schlafe ich mit dem verrückten Gefühl ein, anders sein zu wollen als zu sein oder anders zu sein als zu wollen oder vielleicht auch anders zu tun als zu wollen oder zu sein.

Was wissen wir von unseren gegenseitigen Gedanken?

I've gained some insight into human nature since I came here, which is good, but I've had enough for the present.

Miep has made a lovely Christmas cake, on which was written 'Peace 1944' ''.

Hoe heerlijk is het, dat niemand een minuut hoeft te wachten met te beginnen de wereld langzaam te doen veranderen''.

A person can be lonely even if he is loved by many people.

March 16, 1944 ...Kitty, Anne is crazy, but then these are crazy times and even crazier circumstances. March 17, 1944 Even though I'm only fourteen, I know what I want, I know who's right and who's wrong, I have my own opinions, ideas and principles, and though it may sound off coming from a teenager, I feel I'm more of a person than a child - I feel I'm completely independent of others.

In spite of everything I still believe that people r really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, death & misery. I c 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 & yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, & that peace & tranquility will return again.

I am young and strong and living a great adventure

You only really get to know a person after a fight. Only then can you judge their true character!

Reichtum, Ansehen, alles kannst du verlieren, aber das Glück deines Herzens kann höchstens einmal verhüllt sein und wird dich doch immer aufs neue Glücklich machen, solange du lebst. Solange du ohne Furcht zum Himmel aufsehen kannst, solange weißt du, dass du reinen Herzens bist, und das Glück wird immer mit dir sein.

Hope for an end to war, hope for peace.

Be pure in heart,, be pure in mind!

Oh, when will we overcome all these difficulties? And yet it's good that we have to surmount them, since it makes the end that much more beautiful

Father always says I'm conceited, but I'm not, I'm merely vain!

My life here has gotten better, much better. God has not forsaken me, and He never will.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.