Jeannette Walls Quotes

Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.

The story of getting better can be just as compelling as the story of falling apart.

I feel like I have been able to rewrite my story to some extent. But I feel like there is a lot of work to be done.

You have to get to the worst to get better.

I do think it's possible to change for the better.

I am getting better at facing the bouncers, as I know opposition tries to use those as a weapon against me. Yet, no one is perfect, and he takes time to master a particular thing.

I feel confident imposing change on myself. It's a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That's why I need to throw curve balls.

If you are broken, you do not have to stay broken.

Growth doesn't hurt. This is what I've learned. In the end, it doesn't hurt. It hurts while it's happening. But in the end, you know, for life, for parenting, and for the arts, it's not a bad - not a bad thing to try for.

Evolution is a constant state. You evolve and become comfortable in situations in which you might have felt alien in the past.

You can't change nothing unless you want to change it, and then if you don't like whatever situation it is, just grow from it, learn from it, don't let it happen again.

Life is continually changing. This is what makes people better.

Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you, the thing you think you can't survive...it's the thing that makes you better than you used to be.

I think, you know, the people that have seen my work, I think it speaks to the possibility of getting better, and, I'm sorry, I'm still on the last caller.

People change when they hurt enough that they have to change, learn enough that they want to change, receive enough that they are able to change.

Mostly everything gets worse before it gets better.

When something bad happens is when you really learn. It causes self-examination, it causes you to take a look at yourself. You naturally start analyzing. It's not that you're wrong; it's that sometimes you just need to make adjustments. Change your way of thinking, change your way of doing, change your way of choosing.

A man does not measure its height in moments of comfort, but in terms of change and controversy

You are either getting better or getting worse, but you are never staying the same.

I know change can be painful. But from change comes growth.

And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

Wanting to change, to improve, a person's situation means offering him, for difficulties in which he is practiced and experienced, other difficulties that will find him perhaps even more bewildered.

Baseball is a game based on adversity. It's a game that's going to test you repeatedly. It's going to find your weaknesses and vulnerabilities and force you to adjust. That adversity, in the big picture, is a really good thing because it shows you where your weaknesses are. It gives you the opportunity to improve.

I have mistakes and I have flaws, but I'm going to grow and get better from it.

Pentathlon is not a sign of my failure in swimming. It's a new start for me.