Anne

The joy that isn't shared dies young.

Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort.

The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.

Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem, or saying a prayer.

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.

It could be said that the AIDS pandemic is a classic own-goal scored by the human race against itself.

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.

A wise man keeps secrets in his heart a foolish man tells tales.

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 keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

We all live with the objective of being happy, our lives are all different and yet the same.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

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.

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

Just because you're miserable doesn't mean you can't enjoy your life.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

...Him that I love, I wish to be free--even from me.

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone, his own burdens, his own way.

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.

Only when one is connected to one's inner core is one connected to others. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be re-found through solitude.

Make no judgements where you have no compassion.

Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but the capacity to prevent it.

Only dreamers can teach us to soar.

The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.

Knowledge is essential to conquest only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work You don't give up.

Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.

We begin to see that the completion of an important project has every right to be dignified by a natural grieving process. Something that required the best of you has ended. You will miss it.

People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.

It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.

I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.