Anne Frank citáty

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„Dôvod, prečo si zakladám denník, je ten, že nemám žiadneho skutočného priateľa.“

„Je úžasné, že nikto nemusí čakať ani chvíľu na to, aby začal zlepšovať svet.“

„Nikto ešte neochudobnel tým, že pomáhal druhým.“

„Rodičia im môžu len dobre poradiť alebo ich nasmerovať na správnu cestu, ale konečné formovanie charakteru človeka je v jeho vlastných rukách.“

„Všetci žijeme s cieľom byť šťastní; naše životy sú rôzne, a predsa rovnaké.“

„Spomeň si na všetku tú krásu, ktorá stále okolo teba je a buď šťastný.“

„Pretože papier má viac trpezlivosti ako ľudia.“

„V hĺbke duše, mladí sú osamelejší ako starí.“

„Veľa premýšľam, ale veľa nehovorím.“

“People can so easily be tempted by slackness… and by money.”

“Riches can all be lost, but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled, and it will bring you happiness again, as long as you live.”

“I live in a crazy time.”

“Be brave! Let's remember our duty and perform it without complaint. There will be a way out. God has never deserted our people. Through the ages Jews have had to suffer, but through the ages they've gone on living, and the centuries of suffering have only made them stronger. The weak shall fall and the strong shall survive and not be defeated!”

“How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but can start right now to gradually change the world! How wonderful it is that everyone, great and small, can immediately help bring about justice by giving of themselves! […] You can always — always — give something, even if it's a simple act of kindness!”

“A "food cycle" is a period in which we have only one particular dish or type of vegetable to eat. For a long time we ate nothing but endive. Endive with sand -, endive without sand, endive with mashed potatoes, endive-and-mashed potato casserole. Then it was spinach, followed by kohlrabi, salsify, cucumbers, tomatoes, sauerkraut, etc., etc.”

“However, during the third class he'd finally had enough. "Anne Frank, as punishment for talking in class, write an essay entitled, Quack, Quack, Quack, Said Mistress Chatterback."”

“I trust to luck and do nothing but work, hoping that all will end well.”

“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.”

“Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?”

“At such moments I don't think about all the misery, but about the beauty that still remains. This is where Mother and I differ greatly. Her advice in the face of melancholy is: "Think about all the suffering in the world and be thankful you're not part of it." My advice is: "Go outside, to the country, enjoy the sun and all nature has to offer. Go outside and try to recapture the happiness within yourself; think of all the beauty in yourself and in everything around you and be happy."”

“Forgive me, Kitty, they don't call me a bundle of contradictions for nothing!”

“I want to go on living even after my death! And that's why I'm so grateful to God for having given me this gift, which I can use to develop myself and to express all that's inside me!”

“Fine specimens of humanity, those Germans, and to think that I am actually one of them!”

“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!”

“Is discord going to show itself while we are still fighting, is the Jew once again worth less than another? Oh, it is sad, very sad, that once more, for the umpteenth time, the old truth is confirmed: "What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews."”

“For someone like me, it is a very strange habit to write in a diary. Not only that I have never written before, but it strikes me that later neither I, nor anyone else, will care for the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.”

“We're all alive, but we don't know why or what for; we're all searching for happiness; we're all leading lives that are different and yet the same.”

“I don’t think of all the misery, but the beauty that still remains.”