A friend shared this with me this week and I thought, as it is Easter and Passover, it was appropriate to share this with you.
Anne Frank: “ 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, which will destroy us too: 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 will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again. In the meantime, I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.”
the vision and the faith implicit in this quote are astounding.The certainty of adhering to her ideals in the face of insurmountable adversity…inspiring