Quotes from Thomas Moore

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

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

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

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.

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

Good Demeter mothering keeps a child in the heat and passion of life which immortalize and establish soulfulness. Mothering involves not only physical survival and achievement—Demeter's grain and fruit—it is also concerned with guiding a child to his or her unknown depths and the mystery of fate.

Often care of the soul means not taking sides when there is a conflict at a deep level. It may be necessary to stretch the heart wide enough to embrace contradiction and paradox.

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.

It's the pausing and the stopping, perhaps going backward and losing some time, not being able to do everything we're supposed to do, that serves the soul. That's the enchantment that feeds the soul.

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

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

It is not while beauty And youth are thine own And thy cheeks Unprofaned by a tear That the ferver and faith Of a soul can be known To which time will but Make thee more dear No the heart that has truly loved Never forgets But as truly loves On to the close As the sunflower turns On her god when he sets The same look which She'd turned when he rose.

The problem in narcissism is not the high ideals and ambitions, it's the difficulty one encounters when trying to give them body.

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

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.

But anyone who deliberately tries to get himself elected to a public office is permanently disqualified from holding one.

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

When you sense that your dark night is one of pregnancy and oceanic return, you could react accordingly and be still. Watch and wonder. Take the human embryo as your model. Assume the fetal position, emotionally and intellectually. Be silent. Float in your darkness as if it were the waters of the womb, and give up trying to fight your way out or make sense of it.

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

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

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.

There are places in this world that are neither here nor there, neither up nor down, neither real nor imaginary...

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.

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