Abbe Pierre Quotes

The extent to which all people in our society are made to count, and believe that they count, is not just a measure of decency; it makes sound economic sense.

Everybody is important. Everybody has something to give.

There is a plan and a purpose, a value to every life, no matter what its location, age, gender or disability.

It feels good to know you contributed positively to another's life, to their happiness, to their survival. It gives us a sense of purpose.

Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.

I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.

He felt like the invisible boy. When he got to be part of the mystery Men he felt like he had a purpose.

We want to help everyone find meaning in their life and help translate the story that each person actually matters in the world.

What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else?

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

If you're not represented, then sometimes you might not feel hopeful and don't feel like you can do something that other people are doing when you're just as worthy as they are.

I don't want to be taking up space, but as long as I can make a contribution, I want to play.

If I can help one family embrace their child and not displace them and throw them out, I'm happy about that.

Unless I am a part of everything I am nothing.

What preys on my mind is simply this one question: what am I good for, could I not be of service or use in some way?

It is never until one realizes that one means something to others that one feels there is any point or purpose in one's own existence.

It feels good to be in a place now where I can give back to my community.

There is power in seeing a face that looks like yours do something, be someone. There is power in moving from the sidelines to the center.

When I choose what I do, I ask, 'Does it make a difference?'

My purpose has broadened. My purpose now is to help as many people rise as possible, and it doesn't matter whether they're women or men. But that sense of value that we have as individuals, I think informs us and helps us to treat each other better.

We live in such an image-heavy world that not seeing yourself in that landscape can really make it tough to feel human, to feel like you are part of the world.

If you ask a woman who she is, she'll tell you who she serves and sometimes what she does. But that isn't the whole story.

A lot of people write and tell us what The B-52s meant to them - straight, straight-A students, those who were a little awkward, weren't always the ones who fit in. People have told us that just having us and our music was beyond important and really made me feel that what we were doing was worth something big.

At the end of the day, most people just want to be valued. They want to feel they have put their time to something that will seem to have been of value when they die.

What is important is how much service you can give to the world and how much better you can make things. These are important things. These are all that are important. A bank account never measured the worth of a man. His ability to help measured his worth and that's all. A bank account can assist one to help but where it ceases to do that it becomes useless.