Life is perphas after all simply this thing and then the next. We are all of us improvising. We find a careful balance only to discover that gravity or stasis or love or dismay or illness or some other force suddenly tows us in an unexpected direction. We wake up to find that we have changed abruptly in a way that is perculiar and inexplicable. We are constanly adjusting, making it up, feeling our way forward, figuring out how to be and where to go next. We work it out, how to be happy, but sooner or later comes a change-sometimes something small, sometimes everything at once- and we have to start over again, feeling our way back to a provisional state of contentment.
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Let me be myself and then... ANNE FRANK I have one outstanding trait in my character, which must strike anyone who knows me for any length o... ANNE FRANK People who have a religion should be glad, for not everyone has the gift of believing in heavenly th... ANNE FRANK The weak die out and the strong will survive, and will live on forever ANNE FRANK Anyhow, I've learned one thing now. You only really get to know people when you've had a jolly good ... ANNE FRANK But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem. ANNE FRANK There's only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and foget everybody else! It sound e... ANNE FRANK As long as this exists, this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can... ANNE FRANK In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build ... ANNE FRANK Although I'm only fourteen, I know quite well what I want, I know who is right and who is wrong. I h... ANNE FRANK Women should be respected as well! Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of ... ANNE FRANK The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they c... ANNE FRANK I've found that there is always some beauty left -- in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these... ANNE FRANK The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. ANNE FRANK Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort. ANNE SEXTON There's something wrong in not appreciating one's own special abilities, my girl. Find your own limi... ANNE MCCAFFREY You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly abo... ANNE LAMOTT When honor and the Law no longer stand on the same side of the line, how do we choose[?] ANNE BISHOP Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futi... ANNE SULLIVAN When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, ... ANNE LAMOTT Adoration isn't love. ANNE BRONTE