Kelly Williams Brown quotes
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“Meaning to send a thank-you note but then not doing it is exactly the same as never thinking to send one - that person is still receiving zero thank you notes.”
-- Kelly Williams BrownSource : "'Adulting': How to navigate the complicated realm of the grown-up" by Williams Brown, www.today.com. June 19, 2013.
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“Intentions are nice, but ultimately intentions don't really matter because they only exist inside you.”
-- Kelly Williams BrownSource : Kelly Williams Brown (2013). “Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps”, p.10, Hachette UK
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“You're a grown up, and you get to decide what behaviors affect you for five minutes versus what behaviors change you as a person.”
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“A slightly modified version of the Serenity Prayer: Lord, grant me the serenity to ignore the ***** I cannot avoid; The luck to avoid the ones I can; And the self-awareness not to be one myself”
-- Kelly Williams BrownSource : Kelly Williams Brown (2013). “Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps”, p.63, Hachette UK
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“It is hard to convince people of this, but oatmeal truly is miraculous. It gives you an amazing amount of energy, like cocaine.”
-- Kelly Williams BrownSource : Kelly Williams Brown (2013). “Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps”, p.40, Hachette UK
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“One of the most jolting days of adulthood comes the first time you run out of toilet paper. Toilet paper, up until this point, always just existed. And now it's a finite resource, constantly in danger of extinction, that must be carefully tracked and monitored, like pandas?”
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“Here is what I'm trying to tell you: Adult isn't a noun, it's a verb. It's the act of making correctly those small decisions that fill our day. It is one that you can practice, and that can be done in concrete steps. And if you slip up and have Diet Coke for breakfast, no one busts in and snatches away your Adult card. Just move forward and have milk tomorrow.”
-- Kelly Williams Brown
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“Kindness is always fashionable.”
Source : Amelia Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.98, Litres
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“The more time you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.”
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“People who give will never be poor.”
Source : Anne Frank (2012). “Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex”, p.69, Halban Publishers
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“I've never been a size zero, let me say that here and now. I've never been that sort of person.”
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Source : "Is Global Warming a Sin?" by Alexander Cockburn, www.counterpunch.org. April 28, 2007.
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Source : "The Parenting Trap" by A. A. Gill, www.vanityfair.com. November 2, 2012.
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Source : A.A. Gill (2010). “Paper View: The Best of The Sunday Times Television Columns”, p.127, Hachette UK
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Source : "Naţionalitatea în artă" ("Nationality in Art") by A. C. Cuza, Bucureşti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.
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