Anne Frank (1929-1945)

Anne Frank quotes

• 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.

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• He clings to his solitude, to his affected indifference and his grown-up ways, but it's just an act, so as never, never to show his real feelings.

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• Sleep makes the silence and the terrible fear go by more quickly, helps pass the time, since it's impossible to kill.

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• Ordinary people don't know how much books can mean to someone who's cooped up.

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• There's one golden rule to keep before you: laugh about everything and don't bother yourself about the others!

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• In the future I'm going to devote less time to sentimentality and more time to reality.

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• Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.

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• I wonder if anyone can ever succeed in making their children content.

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• Crying can bring relief, as long as you don't cry alone.

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• eave me in peace, let me sleep one night at least without my pillow being wet with tears, my eyes burning and my head throbbing.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• I do my best to please everybody, far more than they'd ever guess. I try to laugh it all off, because I don't want to let them see my trouble.

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

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• The reason for my starting a diary is that I have no real friend.

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• An empty day, though clear and bright, is just as dark as any night.

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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 love you, with a love so great that it simply couldn't keep growing inside my heart, but had to leap out and reveal itself in all its magnitude.

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• Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

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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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• How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

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• This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

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• If the truth is told, things are just as bad as you yourself care to make them.

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• The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

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

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• What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again.

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• Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.

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• Memories mean more to me than dresses.

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• Those who have courage and faith shall never perish in misery.

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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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• I think a lot, but I don't say much.

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• Women should be respected as well! Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn't women have their share?

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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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