Kelly Williams Brown quotes

“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 Brown

Source : "'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 Brown

Source : 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.”
-- Kelly Williams Brown

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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 Brown

Source : 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 Brown

Source : 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?”
-- Kelly Williams Brown

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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

“The more time you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“People who give will never be poor.”

Source : Anne Frank (2012). “Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex”, p.69, Halban Publishers

“The empty mind - the pure mind - is not a blank, zero-land, where you're not feeling or caring about anything. It's an effulgence of the mind. It's a brightness that is truly sensitive and accepting. It's an ability to accept life as it is. When we accept life as it is, we can respond appropriately to the way we're experiencing it, rather than just reacting out of fear and aversion.”

“Our daughter was born in Chicago, and she's already showing it. The temperature has to be approaching zero for her to wear a hat.”

“I've never been a size zero, let me say that here and now. I've never been that sort of person.”

“There is still zero empirical evidence that anthropogenic production of CO2 is making any measurable contribution to the world's present warming trend.”

Source : "Is Global Warming a Sin?" by Alexander Cockburn, www.counterpunch.org. April 28, 2007.

“The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.”

Source : "The Parenting Trap" by A. A. Gill, www.vanityfair.com. November 2, 2012.

“Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'”

Source : A.A. Gill (2010). “Paper View: The Best of The Sunday Times Television Columns”, p.127, Hachette UK

“Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...”

Source : "Naţionalitatea în artă" ("Nationality in Art") by A. C. Cuza, Bucureşti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.