Top 7 Quotes by Kelly Williams Brown

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.

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

Behavior Change, Minutes, Persons

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

Running, Pandas, Paper

A slightly modified version of the Serenity Prayer: Lord, grant me the serenity to ignore the assholes I cannot avoid; The luck to avoid the ones I can; And the self-awareness not to be one myself

Kelly Williams Brown

Prayer, Self, Serenity

Kelly Williams Brown (2013). “Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps”, p.63, Hachette UK

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

Moving, Practice, Decision

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

Thank You, Zero, Thinking

"'Adulting': How to navigate the complicated realm of the grown-up" by Williams Brown, www.today.com. June 19, 2013.