What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't even happened yet.
You can always give something, even if it is only kindness.
Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.
What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again
Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.
Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because the regret is stronger than gratitude.
I believe in the sun, even when it rains.
Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness.
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 being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again.
Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.
Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
We can't control our destiny, but we can control who we become.
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but can start right now to gradually change the world!
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!
In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.
The only way to truly know a person is to argue with them. For when they argue in full swing, then they reveal their true character.
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!
What's done can't be undone, but at least you can keep it from happening again.
Our many Jewish friends and acquaintances are being taken away in droves. The Gestapo is treating them very roughly and transporting them in cattle cars to Westerbork, the big camp in Drenthe to which they're sending all the Jews....If it's that bad in Holland, what must it be like in those faraway and uncivilized places where the Germans are sending them? We assume that most of them are being murdered. The English radio says they're being gassed.
We’re all alive, but we don’t know why or what for; we’re all searching for happiness; we’re all leading lives which are different and yet the same.
I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!
No one has ever become poor by giving.
don’t believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is every bit as guilty; otherwise, people and nations would have re- belled long ago! There’s a destructive urge in people, the urge to rage, murder and kill. And until all of humanity, without exception, undergoes a metamorphosis, wars will continue to be waged, and everything that has been carefully built up, cultivated and grown will be cut down and destroyed, only to start allover again!
Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.
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