My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.
It's hard to be nice when the rest of the world is so mean.
The world's become a little too mean.
This is an ugly and mean world, and only to spite it we mustn't weep. If you want to know, this is the constant source of my good spirit, of my humor. Not to cry, out of spite, only to laugh out of spite, only to laugh.
I had to do so much self-searching and self-work and learning how to navigate in a world that seemed very mean.
If you could just be nice, then you wouldn't have to worry about arguments at all. but being nice wasn't as easy as it seemed, especially when the rest of the world could be so mean.
This is a mean world, and everyone likes to jump in and kick people when they're down.
You know, sometimes the world seems like a pretty mean place.' 'That's why animals are so soft and huggy.