Thomas Moore famous quotes

A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
-- Thomas Moore

#Love #Friendship #Valentines Day

Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.
-- Thomas Moore

#Death #Spiritual #Angel

When we relate to our bodies as having soul, we attend to their beauty, their poetry and their expressiveness. Our very habit of treating the body as a machine, whose muscles are like pulleys and its organs engines, forces its poetry underground, so that we experience the body as an instrument and see its poetics only in illness.
-- Thomas Moore

#Soul #Machines #Body

Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.
-- Thomas Moore

#Finding The One #Soul #World

The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.
-- Thomas Moore

#Friendship #Heart #Reality

Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
-- Thomas Moore

#Inspirational #Inspiring #Sweet

It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed
-- Thomas Moore

#Soul #Mystery #Madness

Go where we may, rest where we will, Eternal London haunts us still.
-- Thomas Moore

#May #London #Stills

Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity. We might remember the part that resides in eternity when we feel despair over the part that is in life.
-- Thomas Moore

#Disappointment #Betrayal #Loss

The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.
-- Thomas Moore

#Home #Practice #Simplicity

It's important to be heroic, ambitious, productive, efficient, creative, and progressive, but these qualities don't necessarily nurture soul. The soul has different concerns, of equal value: downtime for reflection, conversation, and reverie; beauty that is captivating and pleasuring; relatedness to the environs and to people; and any animal’s rhythm of rest and activity.
-- Thomas Moore

#Life #Animal #Reflection

How many times do we lose an occasion for soul work by leaping ahead to final solutions without pausing to savor the undertones? We are a radically bottom-line society, eager to act and to end tension, and thus we lose opportunities to know ourselves for our motives and our secrets.
-- Thomas Moore

#Opportunity #Soul #Secret

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
-- Thomas Moore

#Love #Marriage #Heartbreak

Socrates and Jesus, two teachers of virtue and love, were executed because of the unsettling, threatening power of their souls, which was revealed in their personal lives and in their words.
-- Thomas Moore

#Teacher #Jesus #Two

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
-- Thomas Moore

#Nature #Flower #Heart

It may help us, in those times of trouble, to remember that love is not only about relationship, it is also an affair of the soul.
-- Thomas Moore

#Disappointment #Love Is #Soul

An eternal question about children is, how should we educate them? Politicians and educators consider more school days in a year, more science and math, the use of computers and other technology in the classroom, more exams and tests, more certification for teachers, and less money for art. All of these responses come from the place where we want to make the child into the best adult possible, not in the ancient Greek sense of virtuous and wise, but in the sense of one who is an efficient part of the machinery of society. But on all these counts, soul is neglected.
-- Thomas Moore

#Wise #Teacher #Art

Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
-- Thomas Moore

#Flags #Wave #Slave

You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
-- Thomas Moore

#Rose #May #Vases

A soul mate is someone to whom we feel profoundly connected, as though the communication and communing that take place between us were not the product of intentional efforts, but rather a divine grace. This kind of relationship is so important to the soul that many have said there is nothing more precious in life.
-- Thomas Moore

#Communication #Effort #Soul

A genuine odyssey is not about piling up experiences. It is a deeply felt, risky, unpredictable tour of the soul.
-- Thomas Moore

#Inspiring #Soul #Odyssey

Good Demeter mothering keeps a child in the heat and passion of life which immortalize and establish soulfulness. Mothering involves not only physical survival and achievement—Demeter's grain and fruit—it is also concerned with guiding a child to his or her unknown depths and the mystery of fate.
-- Thomas Moore

#Children #Passion #Fate

Soul is to be found in the vicinity of taboo.
-- Thomas Moore

#Soul #Found #Taboo

I thought that the light-house looked lovely as hope, That star on life's tremulous ocean.
-- Thomas Moore

#Stars #Ocean #Light

Come o'er the sea, Maiden with me, Mine through the sunshine, storms and snows; Seasons may roll, But the true soul Burns the same, where'er it goes.
-- Thomas Moore

#Sunshine #Sea #Snow

I have plenty of machinery around me; what I really need is a more enchanting world in which to live and work.
-- Thomas Moore

#Needs #World #Enchanting

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
-- Thomas Moore

#Life #Heart #Healing

It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
-- Thomas Moore

#Luxury #Tears

From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.
-- Thomas Moore

#Sleep #Secret #Jasmine

All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest.
-- Thomas Moore

#Sweet #Losing #Made

Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
-- Thomas Moore

#Bondage #Disguise #Stills

Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.
-- Thomas Moore

#Memories #Light #Affection

A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.
-- Thomas Moore

#Vanity #Wife #Retiring

Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.
-- Thomas Moore

#Sea #Heaven #Ships

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities--that's training or instruction--but is rather a making visible what is hidden as a seed... To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life... One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
-- Thomas Moore

#Education #Data #Skills

Though the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see, Yet wherever thou art shall seem Erin to me; In exile thy bosom shall still be my home, And thine eyes make my climate wherever we roam.
-- Thomas Moore

#Art #Eye #Home

It is not while beauty And youth are thine own And thy cheeks Unprofaned by a tear That the ferver and faith Of a soul can be known To which time will but Make thee more dear No the heart that has truly loved Never forgets But as truly loves On to the close As the sunflower turns On her god when he sets The same look which She'd turned when he rose.
-- Thomas Moore

#Heart #Rose #Soul

The devil...the prowde spirite...cannot endure to be mocked.
-- Thomas Moore

#Pride #Devil #Endure

Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print.
-- Thomas Moore

#Angel #Writing #Devil

This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.
-- Thomas Moore

#Heaven #Brain #Wrecks

The problem in narcissism is not the high ideals and ambitions, it's the difficulty one encounters when trying to give them body.
-- Thomas Moore

#Ambition #Giving #Trying

The key to seeing the world's soul, and in the process wakening our own, is to get over the confusion by which we think that fact is real and imagination is illusion.
-- Thomas Moore

#Real #Thinking #Keys

Love doesn't demand perfection, but it does ask you to give yourself with less reserve than you'd prefer.
-- Thomas Moore

#Perfection #Giving #Demand

Usually, the main problem with life conundrums is that we don't bring to them enough imagination
-- Thomas Moore

#Imagination #Problem #Enough