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> [When we relate to our bodies as having soul, we attend to their beauty, their poetry and their expressiveness. Our very habit of treating the body as a machine, whose muscles are like pulleys and its organs engines, forces its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-moore/when-we-relate-to-our-bodies-as-having-soul-we-attend-to-their-beauty/)

[Thomas Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-moore/)

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## More by Thomas Moore

> [“Think of all the males and females of the animal and plant world, all the opposites in every aspect of life. They all need…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-moore/think-of-all-the-males-and-females-of-the-animal-and-plant-world-all/)

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> [All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-moore/all-that-s-bright-must-fade-the-brightest-still-the-fleetest-all-that/)

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> [An enchanted world is one that speaks to the soul, to the mysterious depths of the heart and imagination where we find value, love,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-moore/an-enchanted-world-is-one-that-speaks-to-the-soul-to-the-mysterious/)

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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-moore/it-isn-t-comfortable-to-discover-her-place-and-her-necessity-and-yet/)

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> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-moore/when-time-who-steals-our-years-away-shall-steal-our-pleasures-too-the/)

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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-moore/it-s-my-conviction-that-slight-shifts-in-imagination-have-more-impact/)

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> [We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-moore/we-need-people-in-our-lives-with-whom-we-can-be-as-open-as-possible/)

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> [A soulmate is someone to whom we feel profoundly connected, as though the communicating and communing that take place between us were not the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-moore/a-soulmate-is-someone-to-whom-we-feel-profoundly-connected-as-though/)

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> [“I feel like one Who treads alone Some banquet-hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garland's dead, And all but he departed!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-moore/i-feel-like-one-who-treads-alone-some-banquet-hall-deserted-whose/)

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> [A philosopher being asked what was the first thing necessary to win the love of a woman, answered, Opportunity!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-moore/a-philosopher-being-asked-what-was-the-first-thing-necessary-to-win/)

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> [“Body exercise is incomplete if it focuses exclusively on muscle and is motivated by the ideal of a physique unspoiled by fat.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-moore/body-exercise-is-incomplete-if-it-focuses-exclusively-on-muscle-and/)

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> [“During the dark night there is no choice but to surrender control, give in to unknowing, and stop and listen to whatever signals of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-moore/during-the-dark-night-there-is-no-choice-but-to-surrender-control/)

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> [The devil...the prowde spirite...cannot endure to be mocked.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-moore/the-devil-the-prowde-spirite-cannot-endure-to-be-mocked/)

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> [And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-moore/and-soon-too-soon-we-part-with-pain-to-sail-o-er-silent-seas-again/)

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> [Pythagoras asks that we not let a friend go lightly, for whatever reason. Instead, we should stay with a friend as long as we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-moore/pythagoras-asks-that-we-not-let-a-friend-go-lightly-for-whatever/)

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