Hanging on the wall in our Caravan (living unit)
May 30, 2009
“It’s really a wonder that I haven’t dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder. I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again. In the meantime, I must hold on to my ideals. Perhaps the day will yet come when I’ll be able to realize them.”
Anne Frank, on Saturday, 15 July, 1944
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1. Eli | June 4th, 2009 at 10:47 am
Wow Elinor:
I wasn’t aware really of this piece by Anne Frank. It is a beautiful,
touchy choice of words, which are just as actual and real now days,
as during those dark days that she had to endure. It is definitely
quite inspirational.