The LOVE Lesson

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Quotes about LOVE from Great Peacemakers and Great Artists

Love conquers all. — Virgil

What we need is to love without getting tired. — Mother Teresa

Good works are links that form a chain of love. — Mother Teresa

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand.

— Mother Teresa

i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart.) — e.e.cummings

Where there is love there is life. — Mahatma Gandhi

Spread your love everywhere you go. — Mother Teresa

Where there is great love, there are always miracles. — Willa Cather

That Love is all there is, is all we know of Love. — Emily Dickinson

If we want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. — Mother Teresa

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.

— Mother Teresa

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

— Mother Teresa

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

— Mother Teresa

Love never dies. — Mahatma Gandhi

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires,

and a touch that never hurts. — Charles Dickens

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

All you need is love. — The Beatles

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

— Peter Ustinov

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal. — John Lennon

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. — Sophocles

Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other. — Judy Collins

The greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being. — Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

A life lived in love will never be dull. — Leo Buscaglia

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

— Vincent van Gogh

Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make our time and our bodies and our words into instruments of love and hope. — Tom Head

The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. — Vincent van Gogh

Your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek & find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. — Rumi

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

— Barbara De Angelis

Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity.

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

We have before us the glorious opportunity to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of our civilization. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

Monday, March 7, 2011

What is the LOVE Lesson?

MasterPEACE: Young Artists Making a Kinder World, is the core program of Today Marks the Beginning, a Dallas non-profit organization that uses art to impact public awareness of social issues.

Our method is to use art to inform students about peace. We have a word or theme of the day for each lesson. This lesson: LOVE, is one in a series of 14 lessons that build in effectiveness sequentially. MasterPEACE uses project-based learning lessons that encourage hands on processes.

The core message of this lesson is: the broader meaning of ‘love’ and how love is the source or foundation of the emotions we associate with peace.

This lesson introduces students to illuminated manuscripts (the first books that combined art and letters). It teaches students about: the origin of St. Valentine’s Day, the tradition of giving Valentines, and what a Great Peacemaker means when talking about ‘Love.’