"Sometimes you have to get sicker before you can get better."

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Source : Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

Jeannette Walls

#Get Better Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“My dad is a big extrovert - he's a doctor - but he always loved [William] Shakespeare and he took us to tons of theater.”
“If life is really for the living, then the trick to living well is to learn to live it fully, to soak it up, to revel in it.”
“America is great not because it's a team. America is great because it is a nation whose founding documents elevated the rights of the individual.”
“Why should women not be a martyr for her cause?”
“I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.”
“During our stay in London for the first time I was able to establish personal contact with some of the organic chemists, whose work I knew and admired from the literature. I found them most gracious and helpful.”
“He has been outstanding. [Manuel] Neuer is an extraordinary goalkeeper, who would deserve to win it.”
“But mainly I learned, in approaching the measurement of new phenomena, not just to consider using existing apparatus but to allow the mind to wander freely and invent new ways of doing the job.”

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