Thomas Moore Quotations

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.

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.

All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest.

Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.

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

And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again.

This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.

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

A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.

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.

Came but for friendship, and took away love.

Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.

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

Ask a woman's advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise.

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

Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.

While mantling on the maiden's cheek Young roses kindled into thought.

It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back.

My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me.

Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print.

The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.

Wow, I got goose bumps. It's really appropriate the FDA acted.

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Rich and rare were the gems she wore, / And a bright gold ring on her hand she bore.

On my velvet couch reclining, Ivy leaves my brow entwining, While my soul expands with glee, What are kings and crowns to me?

I was surprised. With all the cop cars, I thought someone was in trouble. I heard the sirens and wondered what is going on.

If it's too good to be true, they are probably the wrong thing to take,

We can get dangerous products off store shelves, but the real challenge is to get them out of families' homes.

Steals timidly away, shrinking as violets do in summer's ray.

Some of the situations that they would be useful in would be during search and rescue operations, ... The camera basically picks up heat information and shows us where it's emitting on the screen inside the patrol car.

My only books, / Were Woman's looks, / And Folly's all they taught me.

I was the leader. I was also the follower.

To live with them is far less sweet, than to remember thee!

Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells!

Yet, who can help loving the land that has taught us Six hundred and eighty-five ways to dress eggs?

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.

Very few universities take the time to identify corporate partners and work with them to understand exactly what skills-sets they want in the MBAs they hire.

There is something more horrible than hoodlums, churls and vipers, and that is knaves with moral justification for their cause.

As soon as (the searchers) identified them as two black guys, they left. They were looking for two white guys and one black guy from Philadelphia, and that's the way it's been for 41 years.

As soon as (the searchers) identified them as two black guys, they left, ... They were looking for two white guys and one black guy from Philadelphia, and that's the way it's been for 41 years.

Right now, we really don't even know what happened as to the cause of the accident.

A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a rouT to retire upon.

It's not meant for someone to swerve across the road and hit it (head on) at 35 miles an hour.

No there's nothing half so sweet in lifeAs love's young dream.

The Chrysler's got some real classic things in the history of photography - things that everyone would like to have - plus a lot of great contemporary work. And it's built that collection from virtually nothing into one that's world-class.

In most of them, it was amphetamines. We found a drug called diazepam, which is a Valium,

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

A few moments of silence may be all the meditation we need at times. Our homes could have a little space for withdrawal and quiet, and even a small garden could offer some distance from noise.

What's important is finding out what works for you.

Peace to each manly soul that sleepeth; Rest to each faithful eye that weepeth...

Sweet flowers alone can say what passion fears revealing.

The past, the future: - two eternities!

Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her hand she bore.

A philosopher being asked what was the first thing necessary to win the love of a woman, answered, Opportunity!

In our prayer and meditation we hope for fulfilling ordinary life.

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.

This heart, my own dear mother, bends, With love's true instinct, back to thee!

The young May moon is beaming, love. The glow-worm's lamp is gleaming, love. How sweet to rove, Through Morna's grove, When the drowsy world is dreaming, love! Then awake! - the heavens look bright, my dear, 'Tis never too late for delight, my dear, And the best of all ways To lengthen our days Is to steal a few hours from the night, my dear!

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

Every season hath its pleasure; Spring may boast her flowery prime, Yet the vineyard's ruby treasuries Brighten Autumn's sob'rer time.

T'is the last rose of summer, Left blooming alone.

This is the right time, and this is the right thing.

With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence - o'er and o'er again Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain, And memory, like a drop that, night and day, Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away!

Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun, grow pure by being purely shone upon.

Faith, Fanatic faith, once wedded fast to some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last.

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

We let a river shower its banks with a spirit that invades the people living there, and we protect that river, knowing that without its blessings the people have no source of soul.

[Angels] guide us to become spiritual people for the pleasure of it... because the spiritual life itself has a great deal of beauty and real satisfaction, even pleasure. And this is what the soul needs.

Let me define a garden as the meeting of raw nature and the human imagination in which both seek the fulfillment of their beauty. Every sign indicates that nature wants us and wishes for collaboration with us, just as we long for nature to be fulfilled in us. If our original state was to live in a garden, as Adam and Eve did, then a garden signals our absolute origins as well as our condition of eternity, while life outside the garden is time and temporality.

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.

The garden reconciles human art and wild nature, hard work and deep pleasure, spiritual practice and the material world. It is a magical place because it is not divided. The many divisions and polarizations that terrorize a disenchanted world find peaceful accord among mossy rock walls, rough stone paths, and trimmed bushes. Maybe a garden sometimes seems fragile, for all its earth and labor, because it achieves such an extraordinary delicate balance of nature and human life, naturalness and artificiality. It has its own liminality, its point of balance between great extremes.

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.

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.

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.

Silence is not an absence of sound but rather a shifting of attention toward sounds that speak to the soul.

An enchanted world is one that speaks to the soul, to the mysterious depths of the heart and imagination where we find value, love, and union with the world around us. As mystics of many religions have taught, that sense of rapturous union can give a sensation of fulfillment that makes life purposeful and vibrant....

The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul.

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.

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.

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.

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.