Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
People who have a religion should be glad, for not everyone has the gift of believing in heavenly things. You don't necessarily even have to be afraid of punishment after death; purgatory, hell, and h...
I want be a writer
I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I s...
Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I've never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will...
I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I'm with friends is having a good time. I can't bring mys...
I want friends, not admirers. People who respect me for my character and my deeds, not my flattering smile. The circle around me would be much smaller, but what does that matter, as long as they're si...
I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.
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!
Leave me in peace, let me sleep one night at least without my pillow being wet with tears, my eyes burning and my head throbbing
Sometimes I'm so deeply buried under self-reproaches that I long for a word of comfort to help me dig myself out again.
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. I see the world gradually bein...
I think a lot, but I don't say much.
Think of all the beauty that's still left in and around you and be happy!
I firmly believe that nature can bring comfort to all who suffer.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.
Jan Gies won’t need to. He’ll let his wife ride piggyback, and then Miep
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.