Quotes about Perspective
Are most people so stingy and selfish? I've gained some insight into human nature since I came here, which is good, but I've had enough for the present.
— Anne Frank
You can't forbid someone to have an opinion, no matter how young they are!
— Anne Frank
Why do grownups quarrel so easily, so much, and over the most idiotic things? Up till now I thought that only children squabbled and that wore off as you grew up.
— Anne Frank
Yes, in the sense that I felt a certain contentment. Not always, mind you. I moaned and groaned from time to time. But I was never downright depressed again, probably because I realized that sadness comes from feeling sorry for yourself and happiness from joy.
— Anne Frank
Later on, when you are older, you won't enjoy anything., then you'll say: 'I read that in books twenty years ago.
— Anne Frank
that we live in a paradise compared to the Jews who aren't in hiding.
— Anne Frank
At such moments I don't think about all the misery, but about the beauty that still remains. This is where Mother and I differ greatly. Her advice in the face of melancholy is: Think about all the suffering in the world and be thankful you're not part of it. My advice is: Go outside, to the country, enjoy the sun and all nature has to offer. Go outside and try to recapture the happiness within yourself; think of all the beauty in yourself and in everything around you and be happy.
— Anne Frank
When I think about our lives here, I usually come to the conclusion that we live in a paradise compared to the Jews who aren't in hiding. All the same, later on, when everything has returned to normal, I'll probably wonder how we, who always lived in such comfortable circumstances, could have "sunk" so low.
— Anne Frank
Not only because I've never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl
— Anne Frank
I've gained some insight into human nature since I came here, which is good, but I've had enough for the present.
— Anne Frank
The difference between you and God is that God doesn't think He's you.
— Anne Lamott
Never compare your insides to everyone else's outsides.
— Anne Lamott