Anne Frank
b. Frankfurt, Germany (12 June 1929)
d. Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp (Feb. 1945)
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\u201cWhoever is happy will make others happy too.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don\u2019t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThink of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s a wonder I haven\u2019t 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. \u00a0<\/span>It\u2019s 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\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cI must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHow wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cNo one has ever become poor by giving.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI live in a crazy time.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
My wife and I attended a solid performance of The Diary of Anne Frank<\/em>\u00a0at the Hale Center Theater in Orem tonight.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
There were empty seats.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
There should not have been.<\/p>\n
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Such stories should never, ever, be forgotten.<\/p>\n
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