Thomas Moore

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

— Thomas Moore

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

— Thomas Moore

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

— Thomas Moore

Soul is to be found in the vicinity of taboo.

— Thomas Moore

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

— Thomas Moore

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

— Thomas Moore

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

— Thomas Moore

“The need to be normal is the predominant anxiety disorder in modern life.”

— Thomas Moore

“And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers Is always the first to be touched by the thorns.”

— Thomas Moore

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

— Thomas Moore

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

— Thomas Moore

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

— Thomas Moore

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

— Thomas Moore

When Time who steals our years away Shall steal our pleasures too, The mem'ry of the past will stay, And half our…

— Thomas Moore

“Fight on my men,"says Sir Andrew Barton, I am hurt,but I am not slain; I'll lay me down and bleed a-while, And…

— Thomas Moore

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

— Thomas Moore

“...to the soul, the most minute details and the most ordinary activities, carried out with mindfulness and art, have an effect far…

— Thomas Moore

Socrates and Jesus, two teachers of virtue and love, were executed because of the unsettling, threatening power of their souls, which was…

— Thomas Moore

“It is in the nature of things to be drawn to the very experiences that will spoil our innocence, transform our lives,…

— Thomas Moore

“For great and horrible punishments be appointed for thieves, wheras much rather provision should have been made that there were some means…

— Thomas Moore

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

— Thomas Moore

“Anger is often like an inverted lotus: On the surface lie muddy, not-so-beautiful roots. Under water lie beautiful blossoms. You need to…

— Thomas Moore

A soulmate is someone to whom we feel profoundly connected, as though the communicating and communing that take place between us were…

— Thomas Moore

A few moments of silence may be all the meditation we need at times. Our homes could have a little space for…

— Thomas Moore

“Besides, the story is ambivalent and mysterious in its ending. Is this Alkestis returning from down below? Why does she have a…

— Thomas Moore

An eternal question about children is, how should we educate them? Politicians and educators consider more school days in a year, more…

— Thomas Moore

“The preparation of food also serves the soul in a number of ways. In a general sense, it gives us a valuable,…

— Thomas Moore

A soul mate is someone to whom we feel profoundly connected, as though the communication and communing that take place between us…

— Thomas Moore

Let me define a garden as the meeting of raw nature and the human imagination in which both seek the fulfillment of…

— Thomas Moore

An enchanted world is one that speaks to the soul, to the mysterious depths of the heart and imagination where we find…

— Thomas Moore

“In the fifteenth century, Marsilio Ficino put it as simply as possible. The mind, he said, tends to go off on its…

— Thomas Moore

“magine a trust in yourself, or another person, or in life itself, that doesn’t need to be proved or demonstrated, that is…

— Thomas Moore

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

— Thomas Moore

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

— Thomas Moore

Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.

— Thomas Moore

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

— Thomas Moore

Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.

— Thomas Moore

Go where we may, rest where we will, Eternal London haunts us still.

— Thomas Moore

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

— Thomas Moore

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

— Thomas Moore