10 Inspiring Quotes From Anne Frank…

By Sukh Singh, Associate Partner, Lighthouse International

We have comfortable lives, with virtually everything we need and want at our fingertips. Yet we will all encounter hard times – losing a loved one. Losing a job. Falling into debt. Going through a break-up or a divorce…

There is one young woman, however, who went through a very dark time whilst facing imminent death; shone instead and gave so much hope to those around her. The reflections in her diary are astonishing. Her name was Anne Frank and she is one of the most famous Jewish victims of the Holocaust.

Born in Frankfurt, Germany, she lived most of her life in or near Amsterdam. By May 1940, the Franks were trapped in Amsterdam by the German occupation of the Netherlands. As persecutions of the Jewish population increased in July 1942, the family went into hiding in some concealed rooms behind a bookcase in the building where Anne’s father worked. From then until the family’s arrest by the Gestapo in August 1944, Anne kept a diary she had received as a birthday present and wrote in it regularly.

How could one young girl still have so much hope and see so much good? She serves us all as a benchmark for how to respond when life is so very challenging. I encourage you to really soak up her words, appreciate the circumstances within which she was writing, and take inspiration in applying them in your own life…

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On Seeing The Good In People

“Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.”

“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!”

“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.”

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

On Becoming a Better Person

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

“Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.”

“I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.”

“Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‘a quiet conscience makes one strong!'”

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

“It’s difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It’s a wonder I haven’t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.”

Which quotes inspire you the most about this remarkable young lady?

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