I don't think you should have to try to be nice, I think most people are nice. I think being cheerful and nice is just a politeness.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes that kindness is a natural trait in people rather than a forced behavior.
Graham Norton suggests that being nice should not feel like an effort but rather an inherent quality of individuals. He asserts that politeness, which is often mistaken for niceness, should be an expression of one's natural disposition towards cheerfulness, reflecting a broader belief in the fundamental goodness of people.
In practice
In a motivational speech about human nature, you could use this quote to emphasize that kindness is innate.
In the half darkness I winked to my other self, my mad dictator, and congratulated him on his droll victory. I closed my eyes and felt the warmth flowing from Shosha's head to my face. What did I have to lose? Nothing more than what everyone loses anyway.
Only times and places, only names and ghosts.
Man stands alone in the universe, responsible for his condition, likely to remain in a lowly state, but free to reach above the stars.
There were days when you peered into yourself, into the secret places of your heart, and what you saw there made you faint with horror. And then, next day, you didn't know what to make of it,you couldn't interpret the horror you had glimpsed the day before. Yes, you know what evil costs.
Darwin's greatest achievement was to show that the appearance of purpose, planning, teleology (design), and intentionality in the origin and development of human and animal species was entirely an illusion. The illusion could be explained by evolutionary processes that contained no such purpose at all. But the spread of ideas through imitation required the whole apparatus of human consciousness and intentionality
Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.
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