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Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter
if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
- Anne Frank
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
I don't think of all the misery
but of the beauty that still remains.
- Anne Frank
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I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation
of confusion, misery and death...
I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.
- Anne Frank
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.
- Anne Frank
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.
- Anne Frank
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.
- Anne Frank
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.
- Anne Frank
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 must uphold my ideals,
for perhaps the time will come
when I shall be able to carry them out.
- Anne Frank
Laziness may appear attractive,
but work gives satisfaction.
- Anne Frank
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment
before starting to improve the world.
- Anne Frank
Who would ever think that so much went on
in the soul of a young girl?
- Anne Frank
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
- Anne Frank
The final forming of a person's character
lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank
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!
- Anne Frank
How true Daddy's words were when he said:
all children must look after their own upbringing.
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
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
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.
- Anne Frank
I live in a crazy time.
- Anne Frank
I have accepted fear as a part of life -
specifically the fear of change...
I have gone ahead despite the pounding
in the heart that says: turn back.
- Erica Jong
Our creator is the same and never changes
despite the names given Him by people here
and in all parts of the world.
Even if we gave Him no name at all,
He would still be there, within us,
waiting to give us good on this earth.
- George Washington Carver
One cannot have everything the way he would like it.
A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment,
anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.
- Mark Twain
I want to thank my parents for everything I am today -
fat, miserable, and paranoid.
- Anonymous
Tip the world over on its side and
everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl
could want in her life, except for good taste in men.
- Anonymous
Damn it boss, I like you too much not to say it.
You've got everything except one thing: madness!
- the movie Zorba The Greek
What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists?
In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
- Woody Allen
I can resist everything except temptation.
- Oscar Wilde
When everything comes your way
you're in the wrong lane.
- Anonymous
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell [attributed]
(Commissioner, US Patent Office, in 1899)
If everything seems to be going well,
you have obviously overlooked something.
- Anonymous
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything
save our modes of thinking
and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
- Albert Einstein
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
- Phyllis Diller
People who think they know everything
are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
- Isaac Asimov
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything
and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde
The more he became truly wise,
the more he distrusted everything he knew.
- Voltaire
I am no longer young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde
I am not young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde
Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
- Woody Allen
Attitude is everything.
- Charles Swindoll
The simple life is everything Vogue isn't.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love.
The real miracle is the love that inspires them.
In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
- A Course in Miracles
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
When I see Spirit in everything, Peace is at hand.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
So divinely is the world organized that every one of us,
in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.
- Adam Acone
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world,
and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Everything you say and do,
is a reflection of the inner you.
- Anonymous
There is nothing more depressing,
than having everything,
and still feeling sad.
- Janet Jackson
Feeling overwhelmed by apparent demands on our time
is like going to a restaurant,
ordering everything on the menu,
and complaining about indigestion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything we say, do, think, and feel
is a product of our personal history
and the collective history of humankind.
Our name for these histories is "prejudice."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Presence requires an internal alertness
to the all and everything surrounding us.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty;
it is its own reward.
Everything else is in God's hands.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Our opportunity is to Soar our Spirit.
To see Light and Joy in everything.
To spread our wings and fly boldly.
To give thanks for rainbows and butterflies -
our symbols of renewal and rebirth.
To offer daily Thanksgiving - for ourselves, our family,
our friends, our community, for the whole world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything we believe is a matter of evolution and history.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is easy enough to be pleasant
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is the one who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
For everything I observe or experience,
I create a story - not sometimes, but always.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In three words, I can sum up everything
I've learned about life - it goes on.
- Robert Frost
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
Balance good, karate good. Everything good.
Balance bad, better pack up, go home. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
I Receive ALL of Life with Thanksgiving -
I have gratitude for EVERYTHING
that has ever occurred to bring me to this moment.
I give thanks for the joys and the sufferings,
the moments of peace and the flashes of anger,
the compassion and the indifference,
the roar of my courage and the cold sweat of my fear.
I accept gratefully the entirety of my past and my present life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Imagination decides everything.
- Blaise Pascal
Everything that irritates us about others
can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
- Carl Jung
Maybe I could have loved you better.
Maybe you should have loved me more.
Maybe our hearts were just next in line.
Maybe everything breaks sometime.
- Jewel
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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