6 Quotes & Sayings By Kelly Williams Brown

Kelly Williams Brown is the award-winning author of more than 20 books, including The Year of Magical Thinking, which was named one of the New York Times Notable Books of the Year in 2007. A former contributing editor at Essence magazine, she is an advocate for mental health issues and has appeared on several television shows including The Oprah Winfrey Show, Larry King Live, and Good Morning America. She is also a contributing editor at Contemporary Books.

Wise random strangers at bars are modern-day Oracles of Delphi,...
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Wise random strangers at bars are modern-day Oracles of Delphi, except drunk and sometimes leaving abruptly when it's their turn for karaoke. Kelly Williams Brown
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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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Like heartbreak, these unpredictable crises are not something you should live in fear of. Perpetual fear won't protect you. Fear is not a citronella candle; scary life happenings are not mosquitoes. They happen in ways we can't predict, control or understand. The only guaranteed outcome of feeling scared all the time is that you will feel scared all the time. Kelly Williams Brown
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It's not as though the world hates you- it just has no idea who you are Kelly Williams Brown
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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