Top quotes by Thomas Moore

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. Votes: 19

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal. Votes: 16

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine. Votes: 15

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. Votes: 15

The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing. Votes: 14

We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk. Votes: 12

Quote from CARE OF THE SOUL...Thomas Moore ...to the soul, the most minute details and the most ordinary activities, carried out with mindfullness and art, have an effect far beyond their apparant insignificance. Votes: 11

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns. Votes: 10

Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal. Votes: 9

No, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream. Votes: 8

Came but for friendship, and took away love. Votes: 8

The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close. Votes: 8

This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven. Votes: 8

The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul. Votes: 8

Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot. Votes: 8

Ask a woman's advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise. Votes: 7

Come o'er the sea,Maiden with me,Mine through the sunshine, storms and snows;Seasons may roll,But the true soulBurns the same, where'er it goes." Votes: 7

Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world. Votes: 7

Fond memory brings the light of other days around me. Votes: 7

Usually, the main problem with life conundrums is that we don't bring to them enough imagination Votes: 6

A few moments of silence may be all the meditation we need at times. Our homes could have a little space for withdrawal and quiet, and even a small garden could offer some distance from noise. Votes: 5

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. Votes: 5

Most of the people I know who are having trouble finding their life work are somewhat passive in style. They wait for something good to happen to them rather than make strong positive moves. Votes: 4

There is no way to re-enchant our lives in a disenchanted culture except by becoming renegades from that culture and planting the seeds for a new one. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves. Votes: 4

It is precisely because we resist the darkness in ourselves that we miss the depths of the loveliness, beauty, brilliance, creativity, and joy that lie at our core. Votes: 3

Most, if not all, problems brought to therapists are issues of love. It makes sense that the cure is also love. Votes: 3

It is in the nature of things to be drawn to the very experiences that will spoil our innocence, transform our lives, and give us necessary complexity and depth. Votes: 1

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine." Votes: 1

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. Votes: 0

Music, oh, how faint, how weak,Language fades before thy spell!Why should Feeling ever speak,When thou canst breathe her soul so well~? Votes: 0

Spring and AutumnEvery season hath its pleasures;Spring may boast her flowery prime,Yet the vineyard's ruby treasuresBrighten Autumn's sob'rer time. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again. Votes: 0

You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still. Votes: 0

Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity. Votes: 0

The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest. Votes: 0

A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady. Votes: 0

The past, the future: - two eternities! Votes: 0

Every season hath its pleasure; Spring may boast her flowery prime, Yet the vineyard's ruby treasuries Brighten Autumn's sob'rer time. Votes: 0

Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still. Votes: 0

All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest. Votes: 0

While mantling on the maiden's cheek Young roses kindled into thought. Votes: 0

Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print. Votes: 0

A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon. Votes: 0

Oh! blame not the bard. Votes: 0

[Angels] guide us to become spiritual people for the pleasure of it... because the spiritual life itself has a great deal of beauty and real satisfaction, even pleasure. And this is what the soul needs. Votes: 0

A genuine odyssey is not about piling up experiences. It is a deeply felt, risky, unpredictable tour of the soul. Votes: 0

A philosopher being asked what was the first thing necessary to win the love of a woman, answered, Opportunity! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A soulmate is someone to whom we feel profoundly connected, as though the communicating and communing that take place between us were not the product of intentional efforts, but rather a divine grace. Votes: 0

An enchanted world is one that speaks to the soul, to the mysterious depths of the heart and imagination where we find value, love, and union with the world around us. As mystics of many religions have taught, that sense of rapturous union can give a sensation of fulfillment that makes life purposeful and vibrant.... Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Faith, Fanatic faith, once wedded fast to some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last. Votes: 0

Go where we may, rest where we will, Eternal London haunts us still. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I have plenty of machinery around me; what I really need is a more enchanting world in which to live and work. Votes: 0

I thought that the light-house looked lovely as hope, That star on life's tremulous ocean. Votes: 0

In our prayer and meditation we hope for fulfilling ordinary life. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed Votes: 0

It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury. Votes: 0

It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Let me define a garden as the meeting of raw nature and the human imagination in which both seek the fulfillment of their beauty. Every sign indicates that nature wants us and wishes for collaboration with us, just as we long for nature to be fulfilled in us. If our original state was to live in a garden, as Adam and Eve did, then a garden signals our absolute origins as well as our condition of eternity, while life outside the garden is time and temporality. Votes: 0

Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun, grow pure by being purely shone upon. Votes: 0

Love doesn't demand perfection, but it does ask you to give yourself with less reserve than you'd prefer. Votes: 0

Peace to each manly soul that sleepeth; Rest to each faithful eye that weepeth... Votes: 0

Pythagoras asks that we not let a friend go lightly, for whatever reason. Instead, we should stay with a friend as long as we can, until we're compelled to abandon him completely against our will. It's a serious thing to toss away money, but to cast aside a person is even more serious. Nothing in human life is more rarely found, nothing more dearly possessed. No loss is more chilling or more dangerous than that of a friend. Votes: 0

Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her hand she bore. Votes: 0

Silence is not an absence of sound but rather a shifting of attention toward sounds that speak to the soul. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Some early writing say that when people kiss, they exchange the soul, that it's between their mouths and tongues that the soul is exchanged. And so the kiss is more of a soulful connection maybe than intercourse and other ways of being together. A kiss asks a lot from you. I think it asks a lot from a person to really kiss. Votes: 0

Soul is to be found in the vicinity of taboo. Votes: 0

Sweet flowers alone can say what passion fears revealing. Votes: 0

The devil...the prowde spirite...cannot endure to be mocked. Votes: 0

The garden reconciles human art and wild nature, hard work and deep pleasure, spiritual practice and the material world. It is a magical place because it is not divided. The many divisions and polarizations that terrorize a disenchanted world find peaceful accord among mossy rock walls, rough stone paths, and trimmed bushes. Maybe a garden sometimes seems fragile, for all its earth and labor, because it achieves such an extraordinary delicate balance of nature and human life, naturalness and artificiality. It has its own liminality, its point of balance between great extremes. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The problem in narcissism is not the high ideals and ambitions, it's the difficulty one encounters when trying to give them body. Votes: 0

The soul doesn't distinguish between good and bad as much as between what is nutritious and what isn't. Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world. Votes: 0

The young May moon is beaming, love. The glow-worm's lamp is gleaming, love. How sweet to rove, Through Morna's grove, When the drowsy world is dreaming, love! Then awake! - the heavens look bright, my dear, 'Tis never too late for delight, my dear, And the best of all ways To lengthen our days Is to steal a few hours from the night, my dear! Votes: 0

This heart, my own dear mother, bends, With love's true instinct, back to thee! Votes: 0

This is the right time, and this is the right thing. Votes: 0

T'is the last rose of summer, Left blooming alone. Votes: 0

To love you was pleasant enough. And, oh! 'tis delicious to hate you! Votes: 0

We let a river shower its banks with a spirit that invades the people living there, and we protect that river, knowing that without its blessings the people have no source of soul. Votes: 0

What's important is finding out what works for you. Votes: 0

When Time who steals our years away Shall steal our pleasures too, The mem'ry of the past will stay, And half our joys renew. Votes: 0

With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence - o'er and o'er again Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain, And memory, like a drop that, night and day, Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away! Votes: 0