very sorry for

I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means -- except by getting off his back. 

-Leo Tolstoy, novelist and philosopher (1828-1910)

lift up

"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else."

~ Booker T. Washington

...made kind by

"Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind."

~ Eric Hoffer

...proud of it?

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. 

-Edith Sitwell, poet (1887-1964)

greatest gift

"The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention."

~ Richard Moss