Thomas Moore Quotes
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.
The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.
You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
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.
Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
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.
And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
Love doesn't demand perfection, but it does ask you to give yourself with less reserve than you'd prefer.
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.
Usually, the main problem with life conundrums is that we don't bring to them enough imagination
Silence is not an absence of sound but rather a shifting of attention toward sounds that speak to the soul.
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.
I have plenty of machinery around me; what I really need is a more enchanting world in which to live and work.
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.
All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest.
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.
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.
The problem in narcissism is not the high ideals and ambitions, it's the difficulty one encounters when trying to give them body.
This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.
A genuine odyssey is not about piling up experiences. It is a deeply felt, risky, unpredictable tour of the soul.
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.
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.
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.
A philosopher being asked what was the first thing necessary to win the love of a woman, answered, Opportunity!
I thought that the light-house looked lovely as hope, That star on life's tremulous ocean.
Every season hath its pleasure; Spring may boast her flowery prime, Yet the vineyard's ruby treasuries Brighten Autumn's sob'rer time.
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.
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.
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.
