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Who would ever think that so much went on
in the soul of a young girl?
- 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
Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
No one has ever become poor by giving.
- 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
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 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
I must uphold my ideals,
for perhaps the time will come
when I shall be able to carry them out.
- Anne Frank
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment
before starting to improve the world.
- 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
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- 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
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- 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
Laziness may appear attractive,
but work gives satisfaction.
- 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
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
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
(Groom), take (Bride)'s hand and place your hand over hers.
Now, remember this moment and cherish it...
because this will be the last time you ever have the upper hand.
- Anonymous
You ask me if I keep a notebook
to record my great ideas.
I've only ever had one.
- Albert Einstein
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand,
you'll find one at the end of your arm.
- Audrey Hepburn
I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
- Isaac Newton
(discoverer of the laws of gravitation and motion,
famous mathematician, and perhaps the greatest scientist ever)
We are all atheists about most of the gods
that societies have ever believed in.
Some of us just go one god further.
- Richard Dawkins
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
- H. L. Mencken
Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music.
- George Carlin
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
Life is far too important a thing
ever to talk seriously about.
- Oscar Wilde
Silence is not always a Sign of Wisdom,
but Babbling is ever a folly.
- Benjamin Franklin
I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up
in our politics and say definite things which mean something,
or whether we shall always go on using generalities
to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Grant That I May Radiate Thy Light, Thy Love,
Thy Healing, Thy Joy, and Thy Peace,
to All Those Around Me
and All Those in My Thoughts
This Day and Ever More.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
Life is greater than you have ever known it.
- Ernest Holmes
No person was ever honored for what he received.
Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge
The road to perdition has ever been
accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
- Albert Einstein
Do you ever question why our educational system
teaches competition rather than cooperation?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must free ourselves of the hope
that the sea will ever rest.
We must learn to sail in high winds.
- Aristotle Onassis
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves.
But deep down below the surface of the average conscience
a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
- Carl Jung
Relax. Take a day off.
Go for a long silent walk in the woods.
The world will still be there tomorrow -
as good and as bad as ever.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We never see Life as it really is.
All we can ever see is the reflection of Life -
distorted by our unique perceptions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If there ever comes a day when we can't be together,
keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Suffering is everywhere. Don't ever think it isn't.
So are miracles. Don't ever think they aren't.
- Jewel
No written law has ever been more binding
than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
- Carrie Chapman Catt
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
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
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
- C. S. Lewis
Believe that none of the effort you put
into coming closer to God is ever wasted -
even if in the end you don't achieve
what you are striving for.
- Rebbe Nachman of Breslov
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
All things appear and disappear
because of the concurrence of causes and conditions.
Nothing ever exists entirely alone;
everything is in relation to everything else.
- The Buddha
Only those who can leave behind everything they
have ever believed in can hope to escape.
- William S. Burroughs
Nothing is ever absolutely "wrong."
"Wrong" is in the cultural tradition of the beholder.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts
by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I accept everything that ever has been,
with no regrets, no resentments, and no call for vengeance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nobody ever gets to see what could have been.
- the 2010 movie Charlie St. Cloud
The present is the ever moving shadow
that divides yesterday from tomorrow.
In that lies hope.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
When our thoughts - which bring actions -
are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white,
we are in a living hell.
That is as real as hell will ever be.
- George Washington Carver
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and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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