Susan Sarandon Quotes

You should think about the world and feel about your heart.

We are fortunate people. It is our need and responsibility to help our fellow man.

What makes the meaning of life is people, so you try to be good to people immediately around you and in your broader community. So a lot of my projects are about how I can affect the world in the hundreds of millions.

If someone comes to you and asks for help, and you can help them, you're supposed to help them. Why wouldn't you? You have been put in the position somehow to be able to help this person.

I have vanity and greed enough for one person. But at the same time, I feel in my bones you lose a lot of life's value if you don't see yourself as a member of the family of man.

Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.

Having felt people's love and support first hand through difficult moments in my life makes me feel it's our responsibility to help one another.

One of the most important responsibilities in the Christian life is to care about others, smile at them, and be a friend to the friendless.

One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve.

Our contribution purely depends on our consciousness and our willingness to support those in need, to show vulnerability and accept the support of others, to share without expecting the credit, to give it our all and allow our hard work to decide the outcome, to understand that control can only be achieved with a shared responsibility.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and holding on.

I want to keep an inner life alive and, with luck, somebody else's, too.

I've certainly had a lot of experiences in my life where I was much too self-centered.

I can take an opinion, but I don't like when you try and spew hate and contaminate the way other people think. I feel like I'm one of the people that's always made music for the common man. That's why I don't really live my life the way I could. I don't stunt as much as I could stunt, 'cause that's not who my music is for.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.

I think we should all have a responsibility not to affect other people in a negative way.

Human life has meaning only to that degree and as long as it is lived in the service of humanity.

Compassionate action emerges from the sense of openness, connectedness, and discernment you have created.

Compassion is the key to living outside the confines of your lower self.

Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference.

I feel that I have such an abundance in my life, and once you've seen how many people suffer and how little it takes for you to actually change their lives for the better, it's hard not to do something.

Yoga is about compassion and generosity towards others. It means being mindful of the world around us.

Compassion and mercy are important, period. It doesn't matter who's at our receiving end, but we need to be flexing those muscles. It's not mutually exclusive: If you have compassion for children starving in Africa, it doesn't mean you can't have compassion for adults in Africa or animals that are being tortured and abused.