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If you try anything, if you try to lose weight, or to improve yourself, or to love, or to make the world a better place, you have already achieved something wonderful, before you even begin. Forget failure. If things

If you try anything, if you try to lose weight, or to improve yourself, or to love, or to make the world a better place, you have already achieved something wonderful, before you even begin. Forget failure. If things don't work out the way you want, hold your head up high and be proud. And try again. And again. And again!

Sarah Dessen
Determination, Work Out, Trying
Sarah Dessen (2004). “Keeping the Moon”, p.210, Penguin

If things don't work out the way you want, hold your head up high and be proud. And try again. And again. And again!

Sarah Dessen
Determination, Work Out, Trying
Sarah Dessen (2004). “Keeping the Moon”, p.210, Penguin

I hoped that Grace would be a little bit of the best of all of us: Scarlett's spirit, and my mother's strength, Marion's determination, and Michael's sly humor. I wasn't sure what I could give, not just yet. But I would know when I told her about the comet, years from now, I would know. And I would lean close to her ear, saying the words no one else could hear, explaining it all. The language of solace and comets, and the girls we all become, in the end.

Sarah Dessen
Girl, Mother, Determination
Sarah Dessen (2003). “How to Deal”, Puffin

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