Go outsideamidst the simple beauty of natureand know that as long as places like this exist, there will be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be.

I can't imagine how anyone can say: "I'm weak," and then remain so. After all, if you know it, why not fight against it, why not try to train your character? The answer was: "Because it's so much easier not to!

leave me in peace, let me sleep one night at least without my pillow being wet with tears, my eyes burning and my head throbbing

People can so easily be tempted by slackness... and by money.

You can be lonely even when you are loved by many people, since you are still not anybody's one and only.

Our many Jewish friends and acquaintances are being taken away in droves. The Gestapo is treating them very roughly and transporting them in cattle cars to Westerbork, the big camp in Drenthe to which they're sending all the Jews....If it's that bad in Holland, what must it be like in those faraway and uncivilized places where the Germans are sending them? We assume that most of them are being murdered. The English radio says they're being gassed.

As long as you can look fearlessly at the sky, you'll know that your pure within and will find happiness once more.