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Your Quotes for 12 June 2005 - Anne Frank

Anneliese Marie Frank was born at Frankfurt, Germany on this day in 1929. The Franks were solid members of the Jewish community there, her father's business was involved in some banking, managed a spa, and manufactured cough drops. After Hitler was appointed Chancellor, the family moved to Amsterdam. Anne received a diary for her thirteenth birthday, which took on unusual significance less than a month later when her sister Margot was ordered to report for deportation on 5 July 1942. The family went into hiding the next day. They lived in a sealed-in apartment until they were arrested on 4 August 1944, based on the word of an informant never identified, which ended the diary. Young Anne Frank had much hope to share with the world, even if her life ended in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

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!

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary, I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls.

It's an odd idea for someone like me to keep a diary; not only because I have never done so before, but because it seems to me that neither I - nor for that matter anyone else - will be interested in the unbosomings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.

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.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
     - All from Anne Frank, 1929 - 1945

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