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Category: Anne Holm

You could not bribe honest people, but bad people would accept bribery.

bribery, honesty

And his eyes frighten me, too. They’re the eyes of an old man, an old man who’s seen so much in life that he no longer cares to go on living. They’re not even desperate… just quiet and expectant, and very, very lonely, as if he were quite alone of his own free choice.

All suffering has an end, David, if only you wait long enough. Sorrow has its life like people. Sorrow is born and lives and dies. And when it’s dead and gone, someone’s left behind to remember it. Exactly like people.

end, sorrow, suffering

Angelo was a grown man, and here was one thing he was quite free to decide for himself, and yet he was ready to let others make up his mind for him…that could only be stupidity.

decision, freedom, stupidity

Being brave meant that though you might be frightened, you would face the greatest danger if you knew it was the right thing to do.

Never let me hear you say it’s someone else’s fault. It often is, but you must never shirk your own responsibility … You can’t change others, but you can do something about a fault in yourself.

fault, responsibility

Before he had come to the town he had known about nothing but death: here he had learnt to live, to decide things for himself; he had learnt what it felt like to wash in clean water in the sunshine until he was clean himself, and what it felt like to satisfy his hunger with food that tasted good; he had learnt the sound of laughter that was free from cruelty; he had learnt the meaning of beauty

clean, freedom, sunshine, water

God of the green pastures and the still waters, please don’t help me. I want to do it by myself so that You’ll know I’ve found something I can do for You … I am David. Amen.

For a moment David was tempted to think that perhaps there were no good people at all outside concentration camps, but then he reminded himself of the sailor and Angelo and the English people who might have been ignorant but were certainly not bad.

anne-holm, concentration-camp, i-am-david, life, smart, wisdom, wise

Johannes had once said that violence and cruelty were just a stupid person’s way of making himself felt, because it was easer to use your hands to strike a blow than to use your brain to find a logical and just solution to the problem.

anne-holm, i-am-david, life, smart, stupidity, violence, wisdom, wise

There’s always something when you’re at fault, too, and that fault you must discover and learn to recognize and take the consequences of it.

anne-holm, consequences, i-am-david, life, smart, wisdom, wise

But Johannes had said, “Politeness is something you owe other people, because when you show a little courtesy, everything becomes easier and better. But first and foremost, it’s something you owe yourself. You are David.

anne-holm, i-am-david, life, politeness, smart, wisdom, wise