Quotes from Thomas Moore

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.

Socrates and Jesus, two teachers of virtue and love, were executed because of the unsettling, threatening power of their souls, which was revealed in their personal lives and in their words.

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

I have plenty of machinery around me; what I really need is a more enchanting world in which to live and work.

To the soul, memory is more important than planning, art more compelling than reason, and love more fulfilling than understanding.

Sex and religion are closer to each other that either might prefer.

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

Though the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see, Yet wherever thou art shall seem Erin to me; In exile thy bosom shall still be my home, And thine eyes make my climate wherever we roam.

Soul is to be found in the vicinity of taboo.

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

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

Come o'er the sea, Maiden with me, Mine through the sunshine, storms and snows; Seasons may roll, But the true soul Burns the same, where'er it goes.

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

I have plenty of machinery around me; what I really need is a more enchanting world in which to live and work.

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.

Oh! blame not the bard.

"A soulmate is someone to whom we feel profoundly connected, as though the communicating and communing that take place between us were not the product of intentional efforts, but rather a divine grace."

Though the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see, Yet wherever thou art shall seem Erin to me; In exile thy bosom shall still be my home, And thine eyes make my climate wherever we roam.

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.

Family life is full of major and minor crises -- the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce -- and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It's difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul

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

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.

When we allow ourselves to exist truly and fully, we sting the world with our vision and challenge it with our own ways of being.

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.