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Biography - Abbé Pierre:

Born Henri Marie Joseph Grouès. French Catholic priest, he startet international solidarity movement to help poor and homeless people.
Born: 1912 - Died: 2007
Period:
21st century
20th century
Place of birth: France
France

Learning to love is why we are here.


Learning to love is why we are here.



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Nous venons sur terre pour apprendre à aimer.

German
Unsere Aufgabe besteht darin, lieben zu lernen.




See also 

See also...



Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.




Quotes for: love


Quotes

Quotes about love:


Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.





Love, love, all the rest is nothing.





We have need of morality only for want of love.





To live means to love, but above all, to love life.





Intelligence has value only in the service of love.





There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.











Quotes for: to learn


Quotes

Quotes for: to learn


It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.





What experience and history teach is this — that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.





Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.





I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.





The best means of learning to know oneself is seeking to understand others.





When you lose, don't lose the lesson.











Quotes

Abbé Pierre also said...


Do not wait to be perfect to start something good.





A smile costs less than electricity, but gives much light.





We have as much need of reasons for living as of the necessities of life.





Everyone's responsibility involves two acts: wanting to know and daring to say.





Simplicity can only exist in what is true.





To have suffered oneself makes one much more understanding of others' suffering.












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