Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.

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

An empty day, though clear and bright, Is just as dark as any night.

I don't dare do anything anymore, 'cause I'm afraid it's not allowed.

I wonder if anyone can ever succeed in making their children content.

What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again

How wonderful it is that we can start doing good at this very moment.

I can't let them see my doubts, or the wounds they've inflicted on me.

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?

The weak die out and the strong will survive, and will live on forever

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside

But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem.

Ordinary people don't know how much books can mean to someone who's cooped up.

I'm sentimental--I know. I'm desperate and silly--I know that too. Oh, help me!

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness.

What's done can't be undone, but at least you can keep it from happening again.

If the truth is told, things are just as bad as you yourself care to make them.

I can recapture everything when I write, my thoughts, my ideals and my fantasies.

Why should some people have such a hard time during their few years on this earth?

I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.

Deep down I know I could never be that innocent again, however much I'd like to be.

There's something happening everyday, but I'm too tired and lazy to write it all down.

Sympathy, Love, Fortune... We all have these qualities but still tend to not use them!

Don't condemn me, remember rather that sometimes I, too, can reach the bursting point.

In the future I'm going to devote less time to sentimentality and more time to reality.

When I write I can shake off all my cares. My sorrow disappears, my spirits are revived.

Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.

Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.

Who knows, perhaps he doesn't care about me at all and look at the others in just the same way.

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

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

We're not the only people that have had to suffer, there have always been people that've had to.

What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't even happened yet.

At any rate, Daddy usually comes to my defence. Without him I wouldn't be able to stick out here.

I had to hold my head up high and put a bold face on things, but the thoughts keep coming anyways.

Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong.

How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but can start right now to gradually change the world!

The world has plenty of room, riches, money and beauty ... Let us begin by dividing it more fairly.

Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because the regret is stronger than gratitude.

People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion.

I hid myself within myself ... and quietly wrote down all my joys, sorrows and contempt in my diary.

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

How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world!

A person who's happy will make others happy; a person who has courage and faith will never die in misery

You can be lonely even when you are loved by many people, since you are still not anybody's one and only.

People who have a religion should be glad, for not everyone has the gift of believing in heavenly things.

If I haven't any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.

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