Anne Frank
The only way to truly know a person is to argue with them. For when they argue in full swing, then they reveal their true character.Collection: Character
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!Collection: Love
What's done can't be undone, but at least you can keep it from happening again.Collection: Done
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!Collection: War
People who give will never be poor.Collection: Thank You
Give and you shall receive, much more that you ever thought possible. Give and give again. People who give will never be poor!Collection: People
Where there is hope...there is lifeCollection: There Is Hope
Don't condemn me, remember rather that sometimes I, too, can reach the bursting point.Collection: Inspirational
Even when I was older, I couldn't stop asking questions.Collection: Asking Questions
I... keep trying to find a way to become what I'd like to be and what I could be if... if only there were no other people in the world.Collection: People
it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.Collection: Years
Don't be too assuming, it doesn't get you anywhere.Collection: Assuming
I never utter my real feelings about anything. My lighter, superficial side will always be too quick for the deeper side of me, and that's why it always wins.Collection: Real
This is a photo as I would wish myself to look all the time. Then I would maybe have a chance to come to Hollywood.Collection: Wish
No one ever was the poorer for givingCollection: Giving
I want to go on living after my death!Collection: Goes On
If God lets me live, I shall attain more than Mummy ever has done, I shall not remain insignificant, I shall work in the world and for mankind!Collection: Success
One must apply one's reason to everything here, learning to obey, to shut up, to help, to be good, to give in, and I don't know what else. I'm afraid I shall use up all my brains too quickly, and I haven't got so very many. Then I shall not have any left for when the war is over.Collection: War
Our blessed radio. It gives us eyes and ears out into the world. We listen to the German station only for good music. And we listen to the BBC for hope.Collection: Blessed
but i've slammed the door to my inner self; if he ever wants to force the lock again, he'll have to use a harder crowbar!Collection: Doors
They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their sympathy and their kind-hearted jokes, it would only make me want to scream all the more. If I talk, everyone thinks I'm showing off; when I'm silent they think I'm ridiculous; rude if I answer, sly if I get a good idea, lazy if I'm tired, selfish if I eat a mouthful more than I should, stupid, cowardly, crafty, etc. etc.Collection: Stupid
Looking back, I realize that this period of my life has irrevocably come to a close; my happy-go-lucky, carefree schooldays are gone forever. I don't even miss them. I've outgrown them. I can no longer just kid around, since my serious side is always there.Collection: Kids
In the future I'm going to devote less time to sentimentality and more time to reality.Collection: Reality
Paper is more patient than man.Collection: Inspirational
Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.Collection: Success
I had an occasional flash of understanding, but then got selfishly wrapped up again in my own problems and pleasures.Collection: Understanding
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.Collection: Real
I 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 rebelled long ago!.Collection: War
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.Collection: Thinking
Not being able to go outside upsets me more than I can say, and I’m terrified our hiding place will be discovered and that we’ll be shot.Collection: Upset
The weak die out and the strong will survive, and will live on foreverCollection: Inspirational
It's important for celebrities, environmentalists and world leaders to continue to increase education and eco-awareness through the forums provided to them naturally by virtue of being famous. Take inspiration from these words of wisdom from a Nazi-era teenager and concentration camp victim: "how wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."Collection: Teenager
No one ever became poor from giving.Collection: Giving
Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements.Collection: Book
Once again St. Nicholas Day Has even come to our hideaway; It won't be quite as fun, I fear, As the happy day we had last year. Then we were hopeful, no reason to doubt That optimism would win the bout, And by the time this year came round, We'd all be free, and safe and sound. Still, let's not forget it's St. Nicholas Day, Though we've nothing left to give away. We'll have to find something else to do: So everyone please look in their shoe!Collection: Fun
Go outsideamidst the simple beauty of natureand know that as long as places like this exist, there will be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be.Collection: Simple
Let's not talk about it any more, but if you still want anything please write to me about it, because I can say what I mean much better on paper.Collection: Writing
I am what a romantic movie is to a profound thinker - a mere diversion, a comic interlude, something that is soon forgotten.Collection: Profound
You can get around to meaningful conversations more quickly in the dark than with the sun tickling your face.Collection: Meaningful
Riches, power and fame last only for a few years! Why do people cling so desperately to these transitory things? Why can't people who have more than they need for themselves give that surplus to their fellow citizens? Why should some people have such a hard time during their few years on this earth?Collection: Hard Times
Outside, you don't hear a single bird, and a deathly, oppressive silence hangs over the house and clings to me as if it were going to drag me into the deepest regions of the underworld.... I wander from room to room, climb up and down the stairs and feel like a songbird whose wings have been ripped off and who keeps hurling itself against the bars of its dark cage.Collection: Dark
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.Collection: Hurt
I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and capitalists alone, are guilty of war. Oh no, the little man is just as guilty, otherwise the peoples of the world would have risen in revolt long ago!Collection: War
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.Collection: Nature
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.Collection: People
Anyhow, I've learned one thing now. You only really get to know people when you've had a jolly good row with them. Then and then only can you judge their true characters!Collection: Character
Everyone thinks I'm showing off when I talk, ridiculous when I'm silent, insolent when I answer, cunning when I have a good idea, lazy when I'm tired, selfish when I eat one bite more than I should.Collection: Selfish
I want to go on living even after death!Collection: Goes On