From the Diary of a Young Girl

“Whoever is happy will make others happy too.”

“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!”

“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”

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

“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.  It’s utterly impossible for me to build my life on a foundation of chaos, suffering and death. I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness, I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too, I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more”

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

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

“No one has ever become poor by giving.”

“I live in a crazy time.”

My wife and I attended a solid performance of The Diary of Anne Frank at the Hale Center Theater in Orem tonight.

There were empty seats.

There should not have been.

Such stories should never, ever, be forgotten.