Susan Sarandon Quotes

I think there is something for all of us where you find a balance in your life, where you feel that everything you do isn't about your own creature comforts or satisfying your own appetites. Some of it has to be directed outward and there is a huge satisfaction in that.

I wish for a world where success is measured not by what we take nor by what we get. Just by what we give. And who we become.

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.

It gives me satisfaction to help people.

Helping others isn't a chore; it is one of the greatest gifts there is.

Not surprisingly, most people feel most beautiful when they are involved in an act of service, or are doing something that makes them feel generous, connected, or seen by others.

Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself.

It's about sharing. You just give what you have to give wherever you go, and you let God handle the rest.

God wants you to live for others and to live that presence well.

Every person - with his or her own skills, abilities and uniqueness - can contribute to others and bring great joy to those that fortune has not smiled upon.

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

I have found that the only thing that does bring you happiness is doing something good for somebody who is incapable of doing it for themselves.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.

The most important thing in anyone's life is to be giving something. The quality I can give is fun and joy and happiness. This is my gift.

The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.

If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless without contribution - I think then as a society we're in better shape. I hope people are inspired to be the best.

I've been lucky to have a lot of opportunities to help people.

When you have so many things, and you have no idea why, you think, 'Maybe I'm supposed to do things for other people.'

The great happiness in life is not to donate but to serve.

I am learning to be more humble and giving as a person.