Starhawk Quotes

Every sentient being values her/his life even if no one else does. That is what is meant by saying that the lives of all have inherent value.

All individuals have the same value, not to be determined by market price. They're made in the image and likeness of God.

You will always have value and nothing can change that.

The peaker learns surely and certainly that life can be worthwhile, that it can be beautiful and valuable. There are ends in life, i.e., experiences which are so precious in themselves as to prove that not everything is a means to some end other than itself.

Nobody is just anything... everyone is of equal value, regardless of their station

No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing.

Just being born makes you worthy enough to be here

You are valuable because you exist. Not because of what you do or what you have done - but simply because you are.

The gift of self cannot be given to us. It is an incomparable gift that has already been given. We have possessed it from the beginning.

We are not to look to what men in themselves deserve but to attend to the image of God which exists in all and to which we owe all honor and love.

The soul of the poorest child is of equal dignity with the soul of Adam.

Let me simply state that it is wrong to regard any other human being, a priori, as an object, or an 'It.' This is so because each and every human being - you, every friend, every stranger, every foreigner - is precious.

Self-worth is an understanding on the intellectual level, trusting at the heart level, and accepting at the soul level that you are worthy just because you believe that you are. Your worthiness is proven by your existence. Your breathing. The beating of your heart. Your mere presence is all that is needed to establish your worth.

The value of life itself cannot be estimated.

One's real worth is never a quantifiable thing.

There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation.

Everything is touched by the holy when it is in the presence of death.

Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their own sake are their own justification.

You are worthy because you were born.

The world exists, not for what it means but for what it is. The purpose of mushrooms is to be mushrooms, wine is in order to be wine: things are precious before they are contributory. It is a false piety that walks through creation looking only for lessons which can be applied somewhere else. To be sure, God remains the greatest good; but, for all that, the world is still good in itself. Indeed, since He does not need it, its whole reason for being must lie in its own natural goodness; He has no use for it, only delight.

No human on God's earth is a nobody.

Everybody is worth everything.

All human beings bear God's image and must be respected for what each person is. Therefore, no external description of one's being, whether based on race, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation, can properly be used as the basis for either rejection or discrimination.

It is hereby decreed that the wall separating the sacred and the profane be toen down. From now on everything is sacred.

We are all equal in the sense that no man must mean - must be - the means for the purposes of another man; but each individual is an end in itself.