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| ...by thinking, nobody can ever get worse but will only get better. | | Uncategorized | |
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| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
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| Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls. | | Boys | |
| Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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! | | Love; Potential | |
| How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. | | Improvement; Life; Mankind | |
| I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as keen, otherwise the people of the world would have risen in revolt long ago! There is an urge and rage in people to destroy, to kill, to murder, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated and grown, will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again. | | Politicians; War | |
| I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains | | Misery | |
| 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 and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments. | | Uncategorized | |
| I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. | | Ideals | |
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| I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out. | | Ideals | |
| I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and tranquillity will return again. | | Hope | |
| I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart. | | Conscience | |
| I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are still truly good at heart, | | Uncategorized | |
| If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly in hand before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer. | | Books; Reading | |
| In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death. | | Uncategorized | |
