Anne Frank quotes - page 2

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. (Anne Frank)

As long as this exists, this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can I be sad?

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

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But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem.

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Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.

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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.

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Don't condemn me, remember rather that sometimes I, too, can reach the bursting point.

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Misfortunes never come singly.

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Don't be too assuming, it doesn't get you anywhere.

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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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This is a photograph of me as I wish I looked all the time. Then I might have a chance of getting in Hollywood. (Anne Frank)

Sometimes I'm so deeply buried under self-reproaches that I long for a word of comfort to help me dig myself out again.

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I believe that in the course of the next century the notion that it's a woman's duty to have children will change and make way for the respect and admiration of all women, who bear their burdens without complaint or a lot of pompous words!

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I wish to go on living even after my death.

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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.

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Who knows, perhaps he doesn't care about me at all and look at the others in just the same way.

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

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

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People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion.

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There's only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and foget everybody else! It sound egotistical, but it's actually the only cure for those suffering from self-pity.

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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. (Anne Frank)

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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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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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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I think it's odd that grown-ups quarrel so easily and so often and about such petty matters. Up to now I always thought bickering was just something children did and that they outgrew it.

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Anne Frank

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Occupation: Dutch Writer
Born: June 12, 1929
Died: 1945
Quotes count: 131
Wikipedia: Anne Frank

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