You can always, always give something, even if it’s a simple act of kindness! If everyone were to give in this way and didn’t scrimp on kindly words, there would be much more love and justice in the world!
Anne Frank
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In spite of everything, I still believe people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
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The line most often quoted from Frank's diary are her famous words, “I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.” These words are “inspiring,” by which we mean that they flatter us. They make us feel forgiven for those lapses of our civilization that allow for piles of murdered girls – and if those words came from a murdered girl, well, then, we must be absolved, because they must be true. The gift of grace and absolution from a murdered Jew (exactly the gift that lies at the heart of Christianity) is what millions of people are so eager to find in Frank's hiding place, in her writings, in her “legacy.” It is far more gratifying to believe that an innocent dead girl has offered us grace than to recognize the obvious: Frank wrote about people being “truly good at heart” before meeting people who weren't. Three weeks after writing those words, she met people who weren't.
— People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present (Dara Horn)
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I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have… love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied
Anne Frank
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Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.
Anne Frank
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What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven’t happened yet.
Anne Frank
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In spite of everything, I still believe people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
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I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have… love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied
Anne Frank
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I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart.
Anne Frank
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Whoever is happy will make others happy.
Anne Frank
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How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank
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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
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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
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Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
-- Anne Frank
(Merlischachen, Switzerland)
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I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart.
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
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