Quotes About Hope

And what would be the point of turning the Secret Annex into a Melancholy Annex?

A person who's happy will make others happy; a person who has courage and faith will never die in misery!

Friday, December 10, 1942

I swallow Valerian pills every day against worry and depression, but it doesn't prevent me from being even more miserable the next day.

Thursday, 15 June, 1944

Wednesday, July 7, 1943

I get frightened myself when I think of close friends who are now at the mercy of the cruelest monsters ever to stalk the earth. And all because they're Jews.

beauty remains, even in misfortune.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

No matter what I'm doing, I can't help thinking about those who are gone. I catch myself laughing and remember that it's a disgrace to be so cheerful.

with its wondrous voice, helps us not to lose heart and to keep telling ourselves, 'Cheer up, keep your spirits high, things are bound to get better!

I start by getting snappy, then unhappy, 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 what I could be, if…there weren't any other people living in the world.

Considérame simplemente como un ser que a veces siente que el cáliz de su amargura está lleno hasta los bordes.

Peter added, "The Jews have been and always will be the chosen people!" I answered, "Just this once, I hope they'll be chosen for something good!

I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

siendo conscientes de nuestra tarea y no nos quejemos, que ya habrá una salida. Dios nunca ha abandonado a nuestro pueblo. A lo largo de

to do better at the start of each new day and, after a while, would certainly accomplish a great deal. Everyone is welcome to this prescription; it costs nothing and is definitely useful. Those who don't know will have to find out by experience that "a quiet conscience gives you strength!" Yours, Anne M. Frank

As you can see, I'm currently in the middle of a depression.

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?

Actually, what you're hoping to find when you're depressed is happiness. Even if you miss a lot because you have no one to talk to, once you've found your own inner happiness, you'll never lose it. I don't mean this in terms of material things, but in a spiritual sense. I believe that once your own inner happiness has been found, it might go underground for a while, but it will never be lost!

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. Then later on I shall be all the stronger. Who besides me will ever read these letters? From whom but myself shall I get comfort? As I need comforting often, I frequently feel weak and dissatisfied with myself; my shortcomings are too great. I know this, and every day I try to improve myself, again and again.

As long as this exists, and that should be forever, I know that there will be solace for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances. I firmly believe that nature can bring comfort to all who suffer.

Christians alike are waiting, the whole world is waiting, and many are waiting for death.

I can't keep that up...finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside and keep trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and what I could be, if...there weren't any other people living in the world.