Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

Embrace your vulnerability and celebrate your flaws; it will let you appreciate the world around you and make you more compassionate.

Be nice wont you?" "I am nice, I'm always nice." "But not too nice. I mean don't make a religion out of it, niceness.

Maybe I am a jerk sometimes. Maybe I'm not. I think most people are kind of a jerk once in a while.

I guess the verdict is in - I am not a sociopath. It's not effective or productive not to be nice. It would undermine the goals I want to achieve on any given day.

We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.

It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.

People are always very nice.

I'm not happy all the time, and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

If I want to be a better person for whoever is in my life, I have to learn.

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

I know it's sappy, but I bet there's a market for civility and niceness out there that, while probably not as titillating as a junkyard scrap between shirtless adversaries, it'd sure be healthier.

I don't know that you can put a label on growth. I'm just me.

For one thing, there is absolutely nothing wrong with being nice. There is nothing uncool about it; there's nothing wrong with being kind.

It always surprises me when people say, 'I don't regret one thing about my life. I wouldn't change anything because it's all led me to where I am today.' I would want to change certain things that have caused others pain.

I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

I always want to be a person who challenges herself to be a better person and spends her time giving rather than receiving.

I'm very respectful of others.

You have to bring yourself to a character.

I think it's important to be sort of nice.

Although it sounds very trite, I wish people were nice.

I've learned a lot. Being more compassionate.

The lead character in 'Adaptation' is pretty much me but with more talent. Every time I watch 'Adaptation,' I feel very emotional because it makes me be kinder to myself and see the human situation a little more clearly.

I hope you will be yourself, human, even a little sentimental, possessed of a sense of humor and a sense of humility. . . . There are arrogant people in this world and, what is worse, arrogant judges.

You try to be good, to be good and loving and nice and not hard, not tough, a sweet nice girl, not ugly, not full of ugliness, but people make it impossible.

If you wanted to put the world to rights, who should you begin with: yourself or others?