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

“the meaning of kindness is hard to define, words you believe to be nice could be hurt to others”

Ritsuko Okazaki (1959–2004) Japanese singer

“My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you've been mean to someone, they won't believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.”

Laurell K. Hamilton A Stroke of Midnight

“Have a nice rest of your life.”

Nicole Richie (1981) American television personality, musician, actress, and author

“It is not hard to see why the Eastern holistic perspective made scientific progress so difficult. It denies the intuition that one can study the parts of the world in isolation from the rest—that one can analyze the world…”

John D. Barrow (1952–2020) British scientist

“Is it because we're having so much fun at home we've forgotten the world? Is it because we're so rich and the rest of the world's so poor and we just don't care if they are? I've heard rumors; the world is starving, but we're well fed. Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much?”

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

“You're so nice. You're not good, you're not bad, You're just nice. I'm not good, I'm not nice, I'm just right. I'm the witch. You're the world.”

Stephen Sondheim (1930) American composer and lyricist

“When I say this game is hard, I mean hard like nipples-on-a-blind-lesbian-in-a-fish-market hard.”

Maddox (1978) American internet writer

“Things are so hard to figure out when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world.”

Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer

“Truth only means something when it's hard to admit.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Last Song