Top 120 Thomas Moore Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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.”

— Thomas Moore

52. “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.”

— Thomas Moore

53. “Though an angel should write, still ’tis devils must print.”

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

— Thomas Moore

55. “For the soul, depression is an initiation, a rite of passage. If we think that depression, so empty and dull, is void of imagination, we may overlook its initiatory aspects. We may be imagining imagination itself from a point of view foreign to Saturn; emptiness can be rife with feeling-tone, images of catharsis, and emotions of regret and loss. As a shade of mood, gray can be as interesting and as variegated as it is in black-and-white photography. If.”

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56. “As the poets and painters of centuries have tried to tell us, art is not about the expression of talent or the making of pretty things. It is about the preservation and containment of soul. It is about arresting life and making it available for contemplation. Art captures the eternal in the everyday, and it is the eternal that feeds soul – the whole world in a grain of sand. Leonardo.”

— Thomas Moore

57. “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.”

— Thomas Moore

58. “Care of the soul requires ongoing attention to every aspect of life. Essentially it is a cultivation of ordinary things in such a way that soul is nurtured and fostered. Therapy tends to focus on crises or chronic problems.”

— Thomas Moore

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

— Thomas Moore

60. “J. B. Jackson, a historian of landscapes, makes a crucial point about such things in his essay “The Necessity for Ruins.” Things in decay, he says, express a theology of birth, death, and redemption.”

— Thomas Moore

61. “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.”

— Thomas Moore

62. “During the dark night there is no choice but to surrender control, give in to unknowing, and stop and listen to whatever signals of wisdom might come along. It’s a time of enforced retreat and perhaps unwilling withdrawal. The dark night is more than a learning experience; it’s a profound initiation into a realm that nothing in the culture, so preoccupied with external concerns and material success, prepares you for.”

— Thomas Moore

63. “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.”

— Thomas Moore

64. “Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.”

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

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66. “Anger is often like an inverted lotus: On the surface lie muddy, not-so-beautiful roots. Under water lie beautiful blossoms. You need to develop an amphibious eye to appreciate the full meaning of such an unusual flower.”

— Thomas Moore

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

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68. “There’s nothing half so sweet in life as love’s young dream.”

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69. “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.”

— Thomas Moore

70. “Care of the soul may take the form of living in a fully embodied imagination, being an artist at home and at work. You don’t have to be a professional in order to bring art into the care of your soul; anyone can have an art studio at home, for instance.”

— Thomas Moore

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

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72. “The ancient art of alchemy shows a way: Pay attention to your deep and complex interior life, become more sensitive about your relationships, consider your past thoughtfully, and use your imagination at its full power. Work from the ground up toward finding the work that will make your life worthwhile. The.”

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73. “For great and horrible punishments be appointed for thieves, wheras much rather provision should have been made that there were some means they might get their living, so that no man should be driven to this necessity.”

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74. “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.”

— Thomas Moore

75. “The word passion means basically “to be affected,” and passion is the essential energy of the soul. The poet Rilke describes this passive power in the imagery of the flower’s structure, when he calls it a “muscle of infinite reception.” We don’t often think of the capacity to be affected as strength and as the work of a powerful muscle, and yet for the soul, as for the flower, this is its toughest work and its main role in our lives. Things.”

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76. “An eternal question about children is, how should we educate them? Politicians and educators consider more school days in a year, more science and math, the use of computers and other technology in the classroom, more exams and tests, more certification for teachers, and less money for art. All of these responses come from the place where we want to make the child into the best adult possible, not in the ancient Greek sense of virtuous and wise, but in the sense of one who is an efficient part of the machinery of society. But on all these counts, soul is neglected.”

— Thomas Moore

77. “The moon looks upon many night- flowers, the night flower sees but one moon.”

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78. “At this deep level of personal myth and innate constitution, spirituality and psychology overlap and conjoin. For that reason, paying close attention to dreams aids any spiritual activity, keeping it grounded and in contact with the elements that have shaped you. Dream work becomes as important as meditation, quiet reading, and prayer, and fits tightly into a developed spiritual way of life.”

— Thomas Moore

79. “Soul-making is a journey that takes time, effort, skill, knowledge, intuition, and courage. It is helpful to know that all work with soul is process – alchemy, pilgrimage, and adventure – so that we don’t expert instant success or even any kind of finality. All goals and all endings are heuristic, important in their being imagined, but never literally fulfilled. In.”

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

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

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82. “I have made many mistakes and done a lot of foolish things, but when I look back on the person I was, I feel affection for him and laugh at him.”

— Thomas Moore

83. “Like the stain’d web that whitens in the sun, grow pure by being purely shone upon.”

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84. “We care for the soul by acknowledging the place of eternal childhood, seeing its disadvantages to be virtuous and its inadequacies to be the conduits of soulful sensitivity.”

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85. “Don’t take anything literally but always look deeper. For example, if you drink too much, what is your soul looking for in the alcohol? If you eat too much, what part of your soul is in need of nourishing? Think poetically and never respond on a surface level. 4.”

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86. “The basic intention in any caring, physical or psychological, is to alleviate suffering. But in relation to the symptom itself, observance means first of all listening and looking carefully at what is being revealed in the suffering. An intent to heal can get in the way of seeing.”

— Thomas Moore

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

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88. “Something deep in human make up needs and longs for a taste of eternity – a momentary release from the relentless pace of time.”

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89. “Again, we can see the importance of imaginal practices such as journals, dream work, poetry, painting, and therapy aimed at exploring images in dream and life. These methods keep us actively engaged in the mythologies that are the stuff of our own lives. The.”

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90. “If you are often angry, trace the roots in story and then apply your anger as a force and a sharp edge to whatever you do. Don’t indulge in venting. Always convert and transform your anger into something worthwhile. Let people see and feel your anger, but don’t explode every time you feel it.”

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91. “The conscious mind is small and weak compared to the emotional and spiritual power that we call daimonic. It may be the urge to create, take risks, and love. Life may be simple when you avoid the daimon of love, but it is also less passionate and meaningful.”

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

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93. “If you take Christmas to heart and get past the anxieties in arranging for gifts and parties, you will rediscover yourself every year at this time and experience a birth in yourself, just like the one so beautifully described in the Gospel stories. It will be a celebration of both the birth of Jesus and the birth of your soul.”

— Thomas Moore

94. “Your challenge, then, is to create a religion of your own by being secular in a religious way, or religious in a secular way. You can learn how to see the secular from a religious angle, and vice versa.”

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95. “Maybe one function of love is to cure us of an anemic imagination, a life emptied of romantic attachment and abandoned to reason.”

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96. “A small amount of good literature can often teach more about the inner life than volumes of psychology.”

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97. “Only when you are fully engaged can you see the activity that will make your life feel worth living.”

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98. “It isn’t comfortable to discover her place and her necessity. And yet what she has to offer is nothing less than the entire deep spiritual realm of the soul, the invisible, unchanging core.”

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

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100. “A gun is dangerous not only because it threatens our lives, but also because it concretizes and fetishizes our desire for power, keeping power both in sight and also removed from its soulful presence in our daily lives. The presence of the gun in our society is a threat, and we are its victims – a sign that our fetish is working against us.”

— Thomas Moore