Quotes about Resilience

I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

Sometimes I believe that God wants to try me, both now and later on; I must become good through my own efforts, without examples and without good advice. Then later on I shall be all the stronger. Who besides me will ever read these letters? From whom but myself shall I get comfort? As I need comforting often, I frequently feel weak and dissatisfied with myself; my shortcomings are too great. I know this, and every day I try to improve myself, again and again.

I can't keep that up...finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside and keep trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and what I could be, if...there weren't any other people living in the world.

Those who don't know will have to find out by experience that "a quiet conscience gives you strength!" Yours

Love finds a way.

In spite of everything, I still believe people are really good at heart.

One day this terrible war will be over. The time will come when we'll be people again and not just Jews!

that we live in a paradise compared to the Jews who aren't in hiding.

Every day I think what a fascinating and amusing adventure this is! With all that, why should I despair?

Dearest Kitty, So there we were, Father, Mother and I, walking in the pouring rain, each of us with a schoolbag and a shopping bag filled to the brim with the most varied assortment of items. The people on their way to work at that early hour gave us sympathetic looks; you could tell by their faces that they were sorry they couldn't offer us some kind of transportation; the conspicuous yellow star spoke for itself. Only

God has not forsaken me, and He never will.

All we can do is wait, as calmly as possible, for it to end. Jews and Christians alike are waiting, the whole world is waiting, and many are waiting for death.