Thomas Moore Quotes

#1. 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.

Thomas Moore

#2. Thus freedom now so seldom wakes, The only throb she gives, Is when some heart indignant breaks, To show that still she lives. THOMAS MOORE

Hugh Laurie

#3. Maybe it's true what Thomas Moore said: It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed.

Susannah Cahalan

#4. In ordinary life, creativity means making something for the soul out of every experience." Thomas Moore Finding

Joanna Penn

#5. Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is, and he would have done other things but that he died young.

Lady Gregory

#6. Peace to each manly soul that sleepeth; Rest to each faithful eye that weepeth ...

Thomas Moore

#7. I have made many mistakes and done a lot of foolish things, but when I look back on the person I was, I feel affection for him and laugh at him.

Thomas Moore

#8. The problem in the modern spiritual landscape is not only a plethora of genuine, useful material but also a marketplace teeming with questionable ideas, practices, and leaders.

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#9. Now is not the time to tolerate the religions of the world; it's time to seek them out and study them and be affected by them.

Thomas Moore

#10. Soul is to be found in the vicinity of taboo.

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#11. You discover that when you are doing the right work, you are the right person.

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#12. My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me.

Thomas Moore

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

Thomas Moore

#14. 40. "Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery."~

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#15. It isn't comfortable to discover her place and her necessity. And yet what she has to offer is nothing less than the entire deep spiritual realm of the soul, the invisible, unchanging core.

Thomas Moore

#16. You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will,
But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.

Thomas Moore

#17. 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.

Thomas Moore

#18. Flight usually intensifies the very thing one flees and establishes a special intimacy with it.

Thomas Moore

#19. And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again.

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#20. A philosopher being asked what was the first thing necessary to win the love of a woman, answered, Opportunity!

Thomas Moore

#21. I feel like one
Who treads alone
Some banquet-hall deserted,
Whose lights are fled,
Whose garland's dead,
And all but he departed!

Thomas Moore

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

Thomas Moore

#23. This is the right time, and this is the right thing.

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#24. Your first task is to find the place where your soul is at home.

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#25. J. B. Jackson, a historian of landscapes, makes a crucial point about such things in his essay "The Necessity for Ruins." Things in decay, he says, express a theology of birth, death, and redemption.

Thomas Moore

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

Thomas Moore

#27. For great and horrible punishments be appointed for thieves, wheras much rather provision should have been made that there were some means they might get their living, so that no man should be driven to this necessity.

Thomas Moore

#28. The one ingredient missing in much of modern spirituality is intelligence. Yet, when you examine the religious traditions of the world you find study, study, and more study.

Thomas Moore

#29. Came but for friendship, and took away love.

Thomas Moore

#30. This heart, my own dear mother, bends,
With love's true instinct, back to thee!

Thomas Moore

#31. A calling is the sense that you are on this earth for a reason, that you have a destiny, no matter how great or small.

Thomas Moore

#32. It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.

Thomas Moore

#33. To be grafted to soul means to be open to the life that pools deep inside you, allowing it to coalesce into a career or other kind of work.

Thomas Moore

#34. The devil ... the prowde spirite ... cannot endure to be mocked.

Thomas Moore

#35. Sweet flowers alone can say what passion fears revealing.

Thomas Moore

#36. 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.

Thomas Moore

#37. A theology of unknowing is necessary for a theology of knowing because without it God would not be worshipped as infinite but rather as a creature, and that would be idolatry.10

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#38. Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her hand she bore.

Thomas Moore

#39. 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

#40. You need your intelligence and your skepticism.

Thomas Moore

#41. T'is the last rose of summer,
Left blooming alone.

Thomas Moore

#42. In our prayer and meditation we hope for fulfilling ordinary life.

Thomas Moore

#43. Learn to live small and you will discover great pleasures. You will accomplish more in your life than you could ever predict if you were overly ambitious.

Thomas Moore

#44. 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

#45. Music, oh, how faint, how weak,
Language fades before thy spell!
Why should Feeling ever speak,
When thou canst breathe her soul so well?

Thomas Moore

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

Thomas Moore

#47. 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.

Thomas Moore

#48. Faith, Fanatic faith, once wedded fast to some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last.

Thomas Moore

#49. Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.

Thomas Moore

#50. It might be better to be more of a skeptic than a believer, less open-minded and more critical. The problem in the modern spiritual

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#51. A philosophy of life is a bundle of wisdom you have gathered from your reading and experience. It is not a rigid ideology that allows no development and complexity. It's a living thing, a developing idea about life that belongs to you alone.

Thomas Moore

#52. 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

#53. A piece of the sky and a chunk of the earth lie lodged in the heart of every human being.

Thomas Moore

#54. Any writer who puts his words and thoughts out into the public is going to be criticized.

Thomas Moore

#55. 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.

Thomas Moore

#56. We display outrageously and obsessively that which we do not possess or have deeply at our disposal. If we are displaying sex with unseemly exaggeration and preoccupation then we have not found the heart of sex.

Thomas Moore

#57. The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.

Thomas Moore

#58. Sex and religion are closer to each other that either might prefer.

Thomas Moore

#59. Taking an interest in one's own soul requires a certain amount of space for reflection and appreciation.

Thomas Moore

#60. Care of the soul may take the form of living in a fully embodied imagination, being an artist at home and at work. You don't have to be a professional in order to bring art into the care of your soul; anyone can have an art studio at home, for instance.

Thomas Moore

#61. Don't take anything literally but always look deeper. For example, if you drink too much, what is your soul looking for in the alcohol? If you eat too much, what part of your soul is in need of nourishing? Think poetically and never respond on a surface level. 4.

Thomas Moore

#62. Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.

Thomas Moore

#63. Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.

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#64. It's my conviction that slight shifts in imagination have more impact on living than major efforts at change ... deep changes in life follow movements in imagination.

Thomas Moore

#65. 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

#66. The whole area of religion and spirituality invites flimflam and is filled with

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#67. Spring and Autumn
Every season hath its pleasures;
Spring may boast her flowery prime,
Yet the vineyard's ruby treasures
Brighten Autumn's sob'rer time.

Thomas Moore

#68. And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers
Is always the first to be touched by the thorns.

Thomas Moore

#69. would first meet Thomas Edison, Paul watched a man burn

Graham Moore

#70. 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.

Thomas Moore

#71. To love you was pleasant enough. And, oh! 'tis delicious to hate you!

Thomas Moore

#72. The life of the soul, as the structure of dreams reveals, is a continual going over and over of the material of life. In

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#73. Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.

Thomas Moore

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

Thomas Moore

#75. As the religious authorities often say, the institution is human, while the substance of the religion is transcendent.

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#76. Renaissance philosophers often said that it is the soul that makes us human. We can turn that idea round and note that it is when we are most human that we have greatest access to the soul.

Thomas Moore

#77. Growing old is one of the ways the soul nudges itself into attention to the spiritual aspect of life. The body's changes teach us about fate, time, nature, mortality, and character. Aging forces us to decide what is important in life.

Thomas Moore

#78. Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun, grow pure by being purely shone upon.

Thomas Moore

#79. Body exercise is incomplete if it focuses exclusively on muscle and is motivated by the ideal of a physique unspoiled by fat.

Thomas Moore

#80. The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately. - THOMAS PAINE

Dinty W. Moore

#81. 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.

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#82. Usually, the main problem with life conundrums is that we don't bring to them enough imagination

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#83. Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.

Thomas Moore

#84. In her extraordinary book, Ordinarily Sacred, Lynda Sexson teaches us how to catch the appearance of the sacred in the most ordinary objects and circumstances.

Thomas Moore

#85. The conscious mind is small and weak compared to the emotional and spiritual power that we call daimonic. It may be the urge to create, take risks, and love. Life may be simple when you avoid the daimon of love, but it is also less passionate and meaningful.

Thomas Moore

#86. Your challenge, then, is to create a religion of your own by being secular in a religious way, or religious in a secular way. You can learn how to see the secular from a religious angle, and vice versa.

Thomas Moore

#87. 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

#88. DOST thou not hear the silver bell,
Through yonder lime-trees ringing?
'Tis my lady's light gazelle.
To me her love thoughts bringing,
All the while that silver bell
Around his dark neck ringing.

Thomas Moore

#89. Oh! blame not the bard.

Thomas Moore

#90. What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.

Thomas Moore

#91. 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.

Thomas Moore

#92. I sometimes wonder if I'm built from old videotape. I feel archaic, worn from overuse and increasingly obscure. One day I'll get caught up in the grinding wheels of my own life and unravel.

David Thomas Moore

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

Thomas Moore

#94. What's important is finding out what works for you.

Thomas Moore

#95. The formal religions are often overdone, with useless formalities, immature psychological notions, and pompous authorities.

Thomas Moore

#96. 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

#97. 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!

Thomas Moore

#98. Fight on my men,"says Sir Andrew Barton,
I am hurt,but I am not slain;
I'll lay me down and bleed a-while,
And then I'll rise and fight again".

Thomas Moore

#99. [In any] machine, the failure of one part to cooperate properly with the other part disorganizes the whole and renders it inoperative for the purpose intended. - THOMAS EDISON R

Graham Moore

#100. Exercise could be more soulfully performed by emphasizing fantasy and imagination. Usually we are told how much time to spend at a certain exercise, what heart rate to aim for, and which muscle to focus on for toning.

Thomas Moore