Thomas Moore Quotes
Top 82 wise famous quotes and sayings by Thomas Moore
Thomas Moore Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
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.
There are places in this world that are neither here nor there, neither up nor down, neither real nor imaginary ...
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
Taking an interest in one's own soul requires a certain amount of space for reflection and appreciation.
The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.
Recognize what is before your eyes, and what is hidden will be revealed to you. THE GOSPEL OF THOMAS
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.
A genuine odyssey is not about piling up experiences. It is a deeply felt, risky, unpredictable tour of the soul.
To the soul, memory is more important than planning, art more compelling than reason, and love more fulfilling than understanding.
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 said (while The moon's smile Played o'er a stream, in dimpling bliss,) "The moon looks "On many brooks, "The brook can see no moon but this;"[1]
I have plenty of machinery around me; what I really need is a more enchanting world in which to live and work.
But anyone who deliberately tries to get himself elected to a public office is permanently disqualified from holding one.
Body exercise is incomplete if it focuses exclusively on muscle and is motivated by the ideal of a physique unspoiled by fat.
Love doesn't demand perfection, but it does ask you to give yourself with less reserve than you'd prefer.
All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest.
You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will,
But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
A small amount of good literature can often teach more about the inner life than volumes of psychology.
Most, if not all, problems brought to therapists are issues of love. It makes sense that the cure is also love.
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.
As the religious authorities often say, the institution is human, while the substance of the religion is transcendent.
The problem in narcissism is not the high ideals and ambitions, it's the difficulty one encounters when trying to give them body.
The formal religions are often overdone, with useless formalities, immature psychological notions, and pompous authorities.
Every season hath its pleasure; Spring may boast her flowery prime, Yet the vineyard's ruby treasuries Brighten Autumn's sob'rer time.
I feel like one
Who treads alone
Some banquet-hall deserted,
Whose lights are fled,
Whose garland's dead,
And all but he departed!
Who treads alone
Some banquet-hall deserted,
Whose lights are fled,
Whose garland's dead,
And all but he departed!
This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.
The life of the soul, as the structure of dreams reveals, is a continual going over and over of the material of life. In
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.
A philosopher being asked what was the first thing necessary to win the love of a woman, answered, Opportunity!