Daily Inspiration Quote by Richard Simmons

In Richard Simmons' mouth, this isn't a scolding so much as a soft-edged rule for surviving a culture that treats vulnerability like a punchline. "It's not nice" sounds almost childlike, which is exactly the point: he reaches for kindergarten morality because adult society keeps failing at it. The line is disarmingly plain, but it lands as a rebuke to the reflexive cruelty baked into celebrity talk shows, tabloid comedy, and now social media dunk culture. If you're going to laugh, Simmons implies, be sure you're not laughing at someone's pain.

The phrase "people with issues" is doing quiet, strategic work. It's vague enough to cover mental health, addiction, body image, disability, even grief - the whole messy human inventory that entertainment industries often monetize. Simmons, whose public persona fused relentless cheer with a kind of emotional transparency, understands that "issues" are also content: they're the raw material of spectacle. His insistence on "nice" pushes back against that extraction.

There's subtext, too, about self-preservation. Simmons was frequently treated as a punchline himself: his flamboyance, his sincerity, his body-positive evangelical energy. The sentence reads like a boundary drawn by someone who knows how quickly audiences confuse honesty with permission. It's an appeal for baseline decency, but also a warning: mockery doesn't just target the "other". It normalizes a world where everyone is one bad week away from becoming the joke.