Thomas Moore
A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.Collection: Valentines
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.Collection: Gardening
Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.Collection: Sympathy
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.Collection: Marriage
Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.Collection: Saint
Came but for friendship, and took away love.Collection: Friendship
Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.Collection: Women
What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.Collection: Age
Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.Collection: Freedom
It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.Collection: Happiness
No, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream.Collection: Love
And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.Collection: Nature
The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.
Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again.
Ask a woman's advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise.
My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me.
This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.
All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest.
While mantling on the maiden's cheek Young roses kindled into thought.
The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.
Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print.
A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.
Oh! blame not the bard.
Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.
The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.Collection: Home
Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.Collection: Sympathy
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.Collection: Education
You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.Collection: Rose
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.Collection: Communication
It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed.Collection: Soul
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.Collection: Life
Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.Collection: Finding The One
Love doesn't demand perfection, but it does ask you to give yourself with less reserve than you'd prefer.Collection: Giving
A genuine odyssey is not about piling up experiences. It is a deeply felt, risky, unpredictable tour of the soul.Collection: Inspiring
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.Collection: Soul
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.Collection: Disappointment
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.Collection: Opportunity
Usually, the main problem with life conundrums is that we don't bring to them enough imaginationCollection: Imagination
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.Collection: Disappointment
Go where we may, rest where we will, Eternal London haunts us still.Collection: May
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.Collection: Real
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.Collection: Life
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.Collection: Lying
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.Collection: Environmental
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.Collection: Writing
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.Collection: Soul
Silence is not an absence of sound but rather a shifting of attention toward sounds that speak to the soul.Collection: Silence
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.Collection: Friendship
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.Collection: Art