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!
Anne FrankRead
I wish to go on living even after my death.
Interpretation
Anne Frank expresses a desire for her legacy to continue beyond her physical existence.
This quote reflects Anne Frank's hope that her thoughts, ideas, and the essence of her experiences will endure even after her death. It emphasizes the human desire for immortality through the impact one has on the world, highlighting how personal legacies can inspire others long after one is gone.
In practice
This quote can be shared in a speech about the importance of leaving a positive impact on future generations.
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!
People who give will never be poor.
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
Don't condemn me, remember rather that sometimes I, too, can reach the bursting point.
The Annex is an ideal place to hide in. It may be damp and lopsided, but there's probably not a more comfortable hiding place in all of Amsterdam. No, in all of Holland.
I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that every-thing will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.
The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.β (August 9, 1955)
But what Freud showed us⦠was that nothing can be grasped, destroyed, or burnt, except in a symbolic way, as one says, in effigie, in absentia.
Power was my weakness and my temptation.
People say maybe we have a soul and chimpanzees don't. I feel that it's quite possible that if we have souls, chimpanzees have souls as well.
In the depth of the anxiety of having to die is the anxiety of being eternally forgotten.
It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.
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