Terry Pratchett Quotes

Business, unfortunately, isn't all sunshine and lollipops.

When I must be mean, I'm mean. When I can be nice, I am nice.

I try to be nice, I try to respect other people, but over the years I've learned that all this stuff we do is a bunch of crap. That doesn't mean it doesn't have its place. We are living in a material world, so why not live with something beautiful?

It's hard to be nice when the rest of the world is so mean.

You should be nice to people because it's better to be nice to people than mean to people, not because you think there's something in it for you.

Live, love, wonder, and be nice!

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.

It really hurts my feelings when people are mean to old people, or when people yell at their little kids. Just ask them what's wrong, bro. I think we all just need to be nicer.

Be nice to old people.

To live as true children of God means to love our neighbour and to be close to those who are lonely and in difficulty

It's nice to do nice things, innit? I'm a nice person, deep down, I do nice things all the time.

I don't want to get so lost in thinking about me and talking about me all the time in interviews. It's so nice to unwind and just look at other things and get out of yourself. It's hard to detach myself from myself without neglecting myself. You know what I mean? I don't want to get in to the habit of thinking about my career because when it comes down to it, it's not really that important. I could die tomorrow and the world would go on.

You won't burn in hell. But be nice anyway.

Mindfulness needs to not be judgmental to really be mindfulness, which means it needs a basis of loving kindness.

You don't need a reason to be nice to someone.

Giving honest and well-intended feedback is often confused with being mean. It's not mean; it's nice.

Atticus, he was real nice." "Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.

Being nice doesn’t make you stupid. It makes you feel good because you know you are gracious enough to forgive and smart enough to realize how distasteful some people can be.

The ultimate source of a happy life is warm-heartedness. This means extending to others the kind of concern we have for ourselves. On a simple level we find that if we have a compassionate heart we naturally have more friends. And scientists today are discovering that while anger and hatred eat into our immune system, warm-heartedness and compassion are good for our health.

The most important thing in my life, and the thing I try to focus on, is to try not to live a life of cruelty. That means trying to make sure I look people in the eye when I meet them. Sometimes you jump in a taxi, or maybe you only have two minutes with someone, and you never see them again. I try to always look them in the eye and have a real experience of what it is to communicate with someone.

If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.

True ahimsa should mean a complete freedom from ill-will and anger and hate and an overflowing love for all.

The consideration and kindness shown by unfortunates to each other are surprising to those who have no experience with this class of men. Often to find real sympathy you must go to those who know what misery means.

Do we say, Oh now I'm going to be nice to the weak and the small? Or do we do as we learned when we were pages?

My understanding of kindness is that we are hoping to be truly beneficial in every situation, and that this desire means a whole suite of things: being nicer, sure, but also being more aware, more present, more articulate, more fearless, less habituated, etc., etc. And sometimes even being firm, or having an edge, or even being angry.