Thomas Moore Quotes

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

Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.

Came but for friendship, and took away love.

It's important to be heroic ambitious productive efficient creative and progressive but these ...

Soul appears when we make room for it.

Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.

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

From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves...

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

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

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

We display outrageously and obsessively that which we do not possess or have deeply at our disposal....

... ongoing care for the soul rather than seek for a cure appreciates the mystery of human suffering...

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

Technologies of the soul tend to be simple, bodily, slow and related to the heart as much as the min...

Music, oh, how faint, how weak,Language fades before thy spell!Why should Feeling ever speak,When th...

Though the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see,Yet wherever thou art shall seem Erin to me;In exi...

Most of the people I know who are having trouble finding their life work are somewhat passive in sty...

Believe me, if all those endearing young charms,Which I gaze on so fondly to-day,Were to change by t...

The friendship that like live is warm; a love like friendship, steady.

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

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

Oft in the stilly night,Ere Slumber's chain has bound me,Fond memory brings the lightOf other days a...

An eternal question about children is, how should we educate them? Politicians and educators conside...

We have to start from the ground up and reconsider what education is. In my language, I'd like to se...

There's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream.

A man or a woman can inspire such deep fantasy and emotion that through the lovemaking embrace of a ...

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

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

It is in the nature of things to be drawn to the very experiences that will spoil our innocence, tra...

It may help us, in those times of trouble, to remember that love is not only about relationship, it ...

Love releases us into the realm of divine imagination, where the soul is expanded and reminded of it...

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

Besides, the story is ambivalent and mysterious in its ending. Is this Alkestis returning from down ...

Gnostic tales tell of the homesickness of the soul, its yearning for its own milieu…

The key to seeing the world's soul, and in the process wakening our own, is to get over the confusio...

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

I’m interested in this humbler approach, one that is more accepting of human foibles, and indeed see...

Renaissance philosophers often said that it is the soul that makes us human. We can turn that idea r...

In the fifteenth century, Marsilio Ficino put it as simply as possible. The mind, he said, tends to ...

We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with...

Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in l...

A small amount of good literature can often teach more about the inner life than volumes of psycholo...

Something deep in human make up needs and longs for a taste of eternity--a momentary release from th...

No, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream.

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

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else whe...