Michelle Tea Quotes

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.

Shall I tell you what you have that other men don't?.... It's the courage of your own tenderness.

I think that there is something truly beautiful in everybody you meet.

A woman can only be ugly from the inside. Any woman can be beautiful, if she is beautiful from within. It is the internal ugliness of this woman that reflects her looks.

One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness.

I like having fun, but the most important thing is to be as good a person as you can be.

With Bojack we are seeing him on this journey. I think we're hoping for him to find a way to be more gracious and kind and positive and better to people in his life and better to himself, but I don't know if I necessarily frame it as he was a bad person and he will become a good person.

You have to be the nice one!

Don't be yourself - be someone a little nicer.

I saw that we're all doing the best we can. This is how a lifetime of humility begins.

The painful thing is that when we buy into disapproval, we are practicing disapproval. When we buy into harshness, we are practicing harshness. The more we do it, the stronger these qualities become. How sad it is that we become so expert at causing harm to ourselves and others. The trick then is to practice gentleness and letting go. We can learn to meet whatever arises with curiosity and not make it such a big deal.

My mother told me that niceness and kindness goes a long way.

Be kind and honest, and harmful poisons will turn sweet inside you.

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

It's nice to be important but it's even more important to be nice. I grew up in a world where there were a lot of big physical guys...and woman so it's always important to be nice to me.

If content with himself and mankind, a man is never harsh or curt.

I see so much beauty in people and in the world and when I see ugliness I try to either expose it or fight but also remind myself that it's mostly just people who can't spell who say mean things.

Let me be a little kinder, Let me be a little blinder to the faults of those around me.

The best and simplest cosmetic for women is constant gentleness and sympathy for the noblest interests of her fellow-creatures. This preserves and gives to her features an indelibly gay, fresh, and agreeable expression. If women would but realize that harshness makes them ugly, it would prove the best means of conversion.

I'm not this tough guy, I'm not this super hard person.

Be nice to everyone, always smile & appreciate things because it could all be gone tomorrow.

Sweet smiles soften judgment. Sweet haunches unseat it.

Beauty comes from tenderness.

The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves.