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!
Anne FrankRead
I am what a romantic movie is to a profound thinker - a mere diversion, a comic interlude, something that is soon forgotten.
Interpretation
This quote reflects the idea that certain experiences or distractions can be seen as ephemeral or inconsequential in the grand scheme of life.
In this quote, Anne Frank likens herself to a superficial distraction for a profound thinker, akin to how a romantic movie serves as entertainment without depth. It highlights the contrast between lighthearted experiences and more profound reflections on existence, suggesting that while these moments may provide temporary amusement, they ultimately lack lasting significance in the bigger picture of life.
In practice
This quote could be used in a discussion about the impact of popular culture on our deeper understanding of life.
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!
People who give will never be poor.
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
Don't condemn me, remember rather that sometimes I, too, can reach the bursting point.
The Annex is an ideal place to hide in. It may be damp and lopsided, but there's probably not a more comfortable hiding place in all of Amsterdam. No, in all of Holland.
I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that every-thing will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.
[The Constitution] is an experiment as all life is an experiment.
Surely the ass who invented the first religion ought to be the first ass damned
Down in the city are the nice houses and the so-so houses and the lovers making out in dark yards and the babies crying for their moms, and I wonder if, other than Jesus, has this ever happened before. Maybe it happens all the time. Maybe there's angry dead all over, hiding in rooms, covered with blankets, bossing around their scared, embarrassed relatives. Because how would we know?
The foundation of worship in the heart is not emotional ("I feel full of worship" or "The atmosphere is so worshipful"). Actually, it is theological. Worship is not something we "work up," it is something that "comes down" to us, from the character of God.
If everyone agreed to become vegetarian, leaving little or nothing for livestock, the present 1.4 billion hectares of arable land (3.5 billion acres) would support about 10 billion people.
We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it.
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