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Kindness

"A person that is nice to you but not nice to the waiter is NOT a nice person" -anon

"Leave people better than you found them" -Big Daddy

"Be kind and be grateful God is kind; it is a happy way to live" -Jeffrey R. Holland

"Kindness is a language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see" -Mark Twain

"Character is how you treat those who can do nothing for you" -anon

"Be one who nurtures and builds. Be one who has an understanding and forgiving heart, who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them" -Marvin J. Ashton

"I've always hated being gossiped about. When I heard that people were talking about me, I consoled myself with what my mother, Ruthie used to say: "Birds peck at the best fruit"" -anon

"Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember- the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you" -Zig Ziglar

"Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others" -H. Jackson Brown, Jr

"People will forget what you said. People will forget what you do. But people will never forget how you made them feel" -Maya Angelou

Moroni 7:8 "If a man being evil giveth a gift, he doeth it grudgingly; wherefore it is counted unto him the same as if he had retained the gift; wherefore he is counted evil before God"

"People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for" -To Kill a Mockingbird

"I come to you tonight with a plea that we stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight. I am suggesting that as we go through life we try to 'accentuate the positive'. I am asking that we look a little deeper for the good, that we still our voices of insult and sarcasm, that we more generously compliment virtue and effort" -Gordon B. Hinckley

Matthew 1:19 "Then Joseph, her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily… but while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost"

• Joseph was kind and patient and slow to anger

• The spirit does not come when we are angry or worked up- Joseph had to be willing and open to the spirit in order for him to come

"The foundation of kindness and civility begins in our homes" -Elder Quentin L. Cook

"Seek to be worth knowing rather than to be well known" -Sandra Turley

Matthew 5:44 "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you"

"Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others" -President Gordon B. Hinckley

"You cannot hide the heart when the mouth is open" -Brigham Young