This book is very close to my heart. It has molded me into more grateful person and made me realize the simple, small and ordinary things in life are precious and we should be grateful for those things in our life and enjoy simple pleasures of life. We are blessed more than we could think. This book helps you to be grateful for simply alive, having dreams and passion and keep working, growing and learning and follow your heart.
About Book
This is the story of a thirteen years old Jewish girl named ANNE FRANK who lived in Amsterdam, Netherland during the world war II. She has been given a diary on her thirteenth birthday and she started writing, keeping the journal in that.
The book covers the situation at the time of war, the political situation around the world during war, her family living hidden in a sealed off room concealed behind a wooden bookcase in the upper annex of the building her father worked in, her uncanny and unloving mother, her supporting and loving father, about how every day seemed like a year waiting for the war to end so she and her family can live normal life, about how limited grocery they had to feed two family, about how she hopefully waited this war to end so she could follow her dream of becoming a teacher. They have been hidden for two years until they all betrayed and moved away by soldiers of German army to concentration camp where she died of typhus at the age of fifteen.
At very young age, Anne Frank went through very difficult phase which made her more matured, grateful and optimistic. She is not here but she left her story alive forever for generations to come and be inspired.
I am quoting some of my favorite lines by Anne Frank from the book.
“Whenever you’re feeling lonely or sad, try going to the loft on a beautiful day and looking outside. Not at the houses and the rooftops, but at the sky. As long as you can look fearlessly at the sky, you’ll know that you’re pure within and will find happiness once more.”
My advice is : Go outside, to the country, enjoy 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.”
“A person who’s happy will make others happy; a person who has courage and faith will never die in misery!”
“I face life with more courage. I know what I want, I have a goal, I have opinions, a religion and love. If I only I can be myself, I’ll be satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inner strength and great deal of courage.”
“I know my various faults and shortcomings better than anyone else, but there’s one difference: I also know that I want to change, will change and already have changed greatly.”
“How noble and good everyone could be if, at the end of each day, they were to review their own behavior and weigh up the rights and wrongs.”
“We were right as far as the issues were concerned, but intelligent people should have more insight into how to deal with others.”
“Every day you hear, ‘If only it were all over!’ (the war) Work, love, courage and hope, Make me good and help me cope!”
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