Anne Frank Quotes

• Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

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  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Think, Happy

• No one has ever become poor by giving.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poor

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Impossible, Hope

• If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Mind

• I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Conscience

• I simply can’t build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death… I think… peace and tranquillity will return again.

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  Topics in Death

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

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  Topics in Ideals

• I live in a crazy time.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Crazy

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

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  Topics in Beauty, Inspirational

  Tags in Remains, Misery, Hope

• 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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  Topics in Love

• Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People

• Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn’t matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Matter

• 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 could be, if there weren’t any other people living in the world.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People

• Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

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  Topics in Work

• Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

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  Topics in Advice, Children, Inspirational

  Tags in Good, Character

• We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Diversity, Happiness

• Then, without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day; of course, you achieve quite a lot in the course of time. Anyone can do this, it costs nothing and is certainly very helpful. Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong.

  Anne Frank

  Topics in Attitude, Experience, Spirituality

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Change/Growth, Learning, Conscience

• In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.

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  Topics in Belief, Inspirational

  Tags in Good, Perception, Heart

• The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. 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.

  Anne Frank

  Topics in Fear, Nature, Religion, Wisdom

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

  Anne Frank

  Topics in Life, Service

  Tags in World, Now, Change/Growth, Wonderful, Procrastination, Philosophy

Anne Frank (40)

Birth:	12th June, 1929
Death:	March, 1945
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Diarist, Writer

About

Anne Frank was a German diarist and writer. Her wartime diary The Diary of a Young Girl has been the basis for several plays and films. Born in the city of Frankfurt in Weimar Germany, she lived most of her life in or near Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. Born a German national, Frank lost her citizenship in 1941. She gained international fame posthumously after her diary was published. It documents her experiences hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II.

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