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She Had To Have Faith Not Just In Trying But In Failing. Was She Strong Enough To Fail Was She Strong Enough Not To
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She Had To Have Faith Not Just In Trying But In Failing. Was She Strong Enough To Fail Was She Strong Enough Not To

Understanding the Quote: "she had to have faith not just in trying but in failing...."

This quote by Ann Brashares reflects deeply on the theme of strong. It connects to the universal human journey of purpose, motivation, and reflection. Often categorized under Strong, Trying, Have Faith, the quote offers insight, emotional clarity, and intellectual inspiration to readers worldwide.

Whether you’re a student exploring new ideas, a leader trying to motivate your team, or someone seeking direction in life — this quote provides value. It resonates because it’s more than words — it’s a bridge between experience and wisdom. It shows how Ann Brashares interprets life's core challenges and triumphs.

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This quote teaches resilience and focus. It reminds readers that no matter where they stand in life, reflection and self-awareness lead to growth. Each word has meaning, and when studied, it becomes clear how impactful thoughtful language can be.

About Ann Brashares

Ann Brashares is celebrated for insightful thoughts on strong and trying. Their legacy lives on through writings that guide, comfort, and inspire. Discover more on their profile page.

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Home
Roots
The Weather Turned. Her Skin Seemed To Grow A Million Extra Pores, And All Of Them Opened To Take In The Warmth And Tenderness Of The Air. The Sun On Her Face Made Her Want To Cry. Into All Those Millions Of Open Pores Came The Sunshine, And Other Feelings As Well. In And Out. She Was Porous.
Sunshine
Air
Weather
Maybe There Is More Truth In How You Feel Than In What Actually Happens.
How You Feel
Feels
Happens
How Terrible Would It Be To Just Wait There Pathetically Alone For Him Never To Show Up?" Eudoxia's Expression Grew More Serious. "that's What You're Doing Anyway, My Dear.
Expression
Waiting
Serious
Please Don't Judge Me Too Much Until You Are Older And Know More Things. (spoken From Mother To Daughter)
Daughter
Mother
Judging
He's Had A Lot Of Chances To Care, And He Hasn't.
Care
Chance
Some Things Have To Be Believed To Be Seen. -ralph Hodgson
Belief
Wear Them, They Will Make You Brave.
Brave
I Love That Blurry Place Where Life’s Transitions Are Made Without You Even Knowing It.
Knowing
Transition
Blurry
He Tricked Himself Into Thinking That She Would Look Into His Eyes And Remember, That Love Would Conquer All.
Eye
Thinking
Looks
During Intermission She Peeked Out At The Theater, Watching It Refill. When It Was Almost Full And The Lights Blinked On And Off, She Saw Three People File In Through The Center Door And Her Breath Caught. Time Lapsed As They Walked Down The Center Aisle: Three Teenage Girls All In A Row. They Were So Big, So Bright, So Beautiful, So Magnificent To Carmen’s Eyes That She Thought She Was Imagining Them. They Were Like Goddesses, Like Titans. She Was So Proud Of Them! They Were Benevolent And They Were Righteous. Now, These Were Friends.
Beautiful
Girl
Teenage
Carmen Hated The 'life Is Too Short" Rationalization. She Thought It Was One Of The Lamer Excuses In The History Of Excuse-making. Whenever You Did Something Because "life Is Too Short Not To," You Could Be Sure Life Would Be Just Long Enough To Punish You For It.
Life Is Too Short
Long
Would Be
So Far, She’d Been Her Usual Lame Self: Solitary And Routine-loving, Carefully Avoiding Any Path That Might Lead To Spontaneous Human Interaction. Lena Kaligaris
Self
Usual
Routine
I Think Pants Have Unique Qualities, Especially In A Woman’s Life. Whatever Bodily Insecurities We Have, We Seem To Take Out On Our Pants.
Unique
Thinking
Insecurity
It Was A Blessing And Also A Curse Of Handwritten Letters That Unlike Email You Couldn’t Obsessively Reread What You’d Written After You’d Sent It. You Couldn’t Attempt To Un-send It. Once You’d Sent It It Was Gone. It Was An Object That No Longer Belonged To You But Belonged To Your Recipient To Do With What He Would. You Tended To Remember The Feeling Of What You’d Said More Than The Words. You Gave To Object Away And Left Yourself With The Memory. That Was What It Was To Give.
Memories
Blessing
Giving
The Path Of Your Life Can Change In An Instant.
Path
Instant
Life Can Change In An Instant
The Happiness At Getting What You Want Is Not Usually Commensurate With The Worry Leading Up To It.
Worry
Getting What You Want
Want
Please Believe Him. Keep Your Heart Open To Him. He Can Make You Happy. He Has Always Loved You, And You Once Loved Him With All Your Heart.
Believe
Heart
Make You Happy
You Don't Have Time, Len. That Is The Most Bitter And The Most Beautiful Pieve Of Advice I Can Offer. If You Don't Have What You Want Now, You Don't Have What You Want. -pg276
Beautiful
Advice
Want
He Could Lose Himself In Her Forever, He Thought.
Forever
Loses
Everything Good Requires Sacrifices.
Sacrifice
Parents Were The Only Ones Obligated To Love You; From The Rest Of The World You Had To Earn It.
Life
Family
Love You
I'm Writing This Down, Because It Is Going To Be Hard For Me To Say It. Because This Is Probably Our Last Time Just Us. See, I Can Write That Down, But I Don't Think I Can Say It. I'm Not Doing This To Say Goodbye, Though I Know That Has To Be Part Of It. I'm Doing It To Thank You For All We Have Had And Done And Been For One Another, To Say I Love You For Making This Life Of Mine What It Is. Leaving You Is The Hardest Thing I Have To Do. But The Thing Is, The Best Parts Of Me Are In You, All Three Of You. You Are Who I Am, And What I Cherish In Myself Stays On In You.
Goodbye
Love You
Writing
She'd Loved Him As Much As He'd Let Her. More Than He'd Let Her.
She Glared At Him, Feeling The Old Frustration. Sometimes In His Presence She Felt The Deepest Connection To Him, And Other Times She Felt Completely Alone-as Though Any Bond To Him Was Her Own Bitter Imagination.
Frustration
Imagination
Feelings
He Was The Strangest Of Strangers In That He Was Also Her Oldest Friend.
Stranger
Oldest Friends
You Carry Your Past With You Even If You Don't Remember Any Of It.
Past
Remember
Ifs
She Thought She Would Know When It Happened. But Now, As She Looked Around, She Wondered If It Was Really Like That At All. Maybe It Happened In A Million Different Ways, When You Were Thinking Of It And You Weren't. Maybe There Was No Gap, No Jump, No Chasm. You Didn't Forget Yourself All At Once. Maybe You Just Looked Around One Time Or Another And You Thought, Hey. And There You Were.
Thinking
Different
Hey
The Present No Matter What I Brought Couldn’t Change The Past. The Past Was Set And Sealed.
Past
Matter
No Matter What
Polly Was Pretty Good At Dieting, All Right, But She Was Beginning To Wonder Whether You Ever Lost The Parts Of Your Self That You Wanted To Lose.
Self
Dieting
Wonder
It Was Funny To Hear Her Voice Aloud. Her Thoughts And Perceptions Usually Existed So Deep Inside Her, They Rarely Made It To The Surface Without A Deliberate Effort.
Voice
Effort
Perception
Hey," He Said. "it's Someday." He Said The Last Word In Greek.
Greek
Hey
Lasts
She Used To Cry Roughly Three Times A Year. Now She Seemed To Cry Three Times Before Breakfast. Could That Be Considered Progress?
Years
Progress
Three
She'd Cried Over A Broken Heart Before. She Knew What That Felt Like, And It Didn't Feel Like This. Her Heart Felt Not So Much Broken As Just ... Empty. It Felt Like She Was An Outline Empty In The Middle. The Outline Cried Senselessly For The Absent Middle. The Past Cried For The Present That Was Nothing.
Broken Heart
Past
Empty
She Wanted Him To See All Of Her And Also None Of Her. She Wanted Him To Be Dazzled By The Bits And Blinded By The Whole. She Wanted Him To See Her Whole And Not In Pieces. She Had Hopes That Were Hard To Satisfy.
Love
Pieces
Wanted
Life Isn't Just Fair. It's Just Fairer Than Death, That's All. -william Goldman
Art And Life
Art Life
Fairs
To Write A Story, I Think You Really Have To Open Yourself Up To The World.
Writing
Thinking
Stories
Tibby Sat On The Outside Of A Group Of Kids In The Film Program. There Was A Lot Of Dark Clothing And Heavy Footwear, And Quite A Few Piercings Glinting In Sunlight. They Had Invited Her To Sit With Them While They All Finished Up Their Lunches Before Film Seminar. Tibby Knew That They Had Invited Her Largely Because She Had A Ring In Her Nose. This Bugged Her Almost As Much As When People Excluded Her Because She Had A Ring In Her Nose.
Kids
Dark
Lunch
Sometimes He Felt Sure That The Key To Happiness Was A Poor Memory.
Memories
Keys
Sometimes
She Spilled Rice On My Knee, And She Smiled. I Wanted Her To Spill A Thousand Things On Me, Lava, Acid, Bricks, Anything, And Smile Each Time
Smile
Knees
Lava
Sometimes You Couldn’t Face The Sadness Of Being Forgotten Until You Felt The Comfort Of Being Remembered Again.
Sadness
Comfort
Faces
Different People Were Good At Different Things, Lena Mused. Lena Was Good At Writing Thank-you Notes, For Instance, And Effie Was Good At Being Happy.
Sister
Writing
People
The Word Friends Doesn't Seem To Stretch Big Enough To Describe How We Feel About Each Other. We Forget Where One Of Us Starts And The Other One Stops.
Forget
Enough
Bigs
Carmen Didn't Like Change, And She Certainly Didn't Like Endings.
They Were Here All At Once, But Not Together. Survival Took Self-absorption, And It Made Them Strangers With Nothing To Do And No Way To Relate. Emergencies Gave You A Shape And A Plot To Take Part In, While Death Was No Story At All. It Left You Nothing.
Self
Survival
Together
I Sometimes Think The Stronger You Feel About Someone, The Harder It Is To Picture Their Face When You Are Away From Them.
Thinking
Stronger
Faces
Tibby Was Shaking Her Head. "what?" Bailey Asked. "nothing. Just That You Suprise Me Every Day," Tibby Said. Bailey Smiled At Her. "i Like That You Let Yourself Be Suprised.
Said
Shaking
But Like Everything Else, Love Changed.
Changed
It Was Probably Good You Couldn't Flip The Love Switch Because Sometimes It Was What You Needed Even If You Didn't Want It.
Want
Flip
Sometimes
She Went Around With A Broken Heart, And She Wasn't Sure Who'd Broken It. She Thought It Was Herself, Mostly.
Broken Heart
Heart
Broken
What Happened To Me By Myself Felt Partly Dreamed, Partly Imagined, Definitely Shifted And Warped By My Own Fears And Wants. But Who Knows? Maybe There Is More Truth In How You Feel Than In What Actually Happens.
How You Feel
Want
Feels
Sex Could Be A Blissful Communion,. But It Could Also Be A Weapon, And Its Absence, Sometimes, Was Required For The Establishment Of Peace.
Peace
Sex
Weapons
He Didn't Seem To Realize That Three Excuses Was As Good As No Excuse.
Three
No Excuses
Realizing
Her Vision Of The World Under The Water Represented A Beautiful Stillness, A Version Of Heaven. It Was The Lost City Of Lena, Her Alternate Universe, The Life She Yearned For But Didn't Get To Have.
Beautiful
Cities
Water
He Took Her In His Arms Right Away. "i'm So Sorry," He Murmured In Her Ear. He Rocked Her, Saying It Over And Over. But No Matter How Many Times He Said It, No Matter How Much She Knew He Meant It, The Words Stirred Around In Her Ear But Didn't Get Into Her Brain. Sometimes He Could Comfort Her. Sometimes He Said What She Needed, But Today He Couldn't Reach Her. Nothing Could.
Sorry
Brain
Comfort
Everyone Is Fragile. Everything Beautiful Is Fragile
Beautiful
Fragile
Love Didn't Necessarily Look The Way You Expected It To.
Looks
Way
Expected
What You Leave Behind Is The People You Loved. You Leave Yourself In Them.
People
Behinds
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People
What If
Recycled
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