Thomas Moore Quotes

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

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.

Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.

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

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.

It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed.

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.

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

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

A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.

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

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.

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.

Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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