Quotes about Reflection
how different we were back then; we don't even recognize ourselves from that period.
— Anne Frank
Those who don't know will have to find out by experience that "a quiet conscience gives you strength!" Yours
— Anne Frank
When I write I can shake off all my cares. My sorrow disappears, my spirits are revived!
— Anne Frank
Later on, when you are older, you won't enjoy anything., then you'll say: 'I read that in books twenty years ago.
— Anne Frank
noble and good everyone could be if, at the end of each day, they were to review their own behaviour and weigh up the rights and wrongs. They would automatically try to do better at the start of each new day and, after a while, would certainly accomplish a great deal. Everyone is welcome to this prescription; it costs nothing and is definitely useful. Those who don't know will have to find out by experience that 'a quiet conscience gives you strength'! Yours
— Anne Frank
in spite of everything, I still don't have enough faith in God. He's given me so much, which I don't deserve, and yet each day I make so many mistakes!
— Anne Frank
The best remedy for those who are frightened, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere they can be alone, alone with the sky, nature and God. For then and only then can you feel that everything is as it should be and that God wants people to be happy amid nature's beauty and simplicity.
— Anne Frank
There's a saying: "Time heals all wounds.
— Anne Frank
Must I keep thinking about those other people, whatever I am doing? And if I want to laugh about something, should I stop myself quickly and feel ashamed that I am cheerful? Ought I then to cry the whole day long? No, that I can't do. Besides, in time this gloom will wear off.
— Anne Frank
When I think about our lives here, I usually come to the conclusion that we live in a paradise compared to the Jews who aren't in hiding. All the same, later on, when everything has returned to normal, I'll probably wonder how we, who always lived in such comfortable circumstances, could have "sunk" so low.
— Anne Frank
It's good that somebody has finally cut me down to size, has broken my pride, because I've been far too smug.
— Anne Frank
Oh, it's sad, very sad that the old adage has been confirmed for the umpteenth time: "What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does reflects on all Jews.
— Anne Frank