Kindness

I've been thinking about kindness lately, as I'm teaching the Relief Society lesson #29 next Sunday (subject: kindness) How many insecurities could be solved by just being kind...how many teens' angst could be soothed by just kind words. I practice this is my classroom daily..... you can literally see the students MELT when they have a good word said to them, a compliment, or an acknowledgement. Jr. High is such a scary time for some of these kids..... but they need to hear it more from their peers.
Tomorrow I am going to pass out this paper in my classroom and have a discussion, and we'll add these to the other great quotes from our literature.... I search several sites and whittled it down to 24....my top favorites are #10 and #23......What are yours?

KINDNESS QUOTES
24 of my favorites --Anne House 2009

1 If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble. ~Bob Hope

2 It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.

3 Treat everyone with kindness, even those who are rude to you - not because they are nice, but because you are.

4 What this world needs is a new kind of army - the army of the kind. ~Cleveland Amory

5 If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. Dalai Lama

6 I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble. Rudyard Kipling

7 Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. ~Mark Twain

8 Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

9 When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. Abraham Heschel

10 Be kind, everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. ~Plato

11 By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.
Winston Churchill

12 Kindness is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.

13. We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. ~Epictetus

14. Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn alife around. ~Leo Buscagli

15 A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. ~Chinese Proverb

16. The best way to knock the chip off your neighbor's shoulder is to pat him on the back.

17. Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight.

18. A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person. Dave Barry

19. Love someone who doesn't deserve it.

20. The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

21. I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart. ~Anne Frank

22. If you step on people in this life, you'll come back as a cockroach.

23. You just can’t beat kindness--- Lorene Donaldson (my mother)

24. During my second year of nursing school our professor gave us a quiz. I breezed through the questions until I read the last one: "What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?" Surely this was a joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times, but how would I know her name? I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank. Before the class ended, one student asked if the last question would count toward our grade. "Absolutely," the professor said. "In your careers, you will meet many people. All are significant. They deserve your attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say hello." I've never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name was Dorothy. ~Joann C. Jones.