Thomas Moore Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.”
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“Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.”
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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 poetry underground, so that we experience the body as an instrument and see its poetics only in illness.”
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“Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.”
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“The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.”
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“Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.”
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“It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed”
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“Go where we may, rest where we will, Eternal London haunts us still.”
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“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.”
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“The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.”
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“It's important to be heroic, ambitious, productive, efficient, creative, and progressive, but these qualities don't necessarily nurture soul. The soul has different concerns, of equal value: downtime for reflection, conversation, and reverie; beauty that is captivating and pleasuring; relatedness to the environs and to people; and any animal’s rhythm of rest and activity.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.”
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“You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.”
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“A soul mate is someone to whom we feel profoundly connected, as though the communication and communing that take place between us were not the product of intentional efforts, but rather a divine grace. This kind of relationship is so important to the soul that many have said there is nothing more precious in life.”
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“A genuine odyssey is not about piling up experiences. It is a deeply felt, risky, unpredictable tour of the soul.”
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“Good Demeter mothering keeps a child in the heat and passion of life which immortalize and establish soulfulness. Mothering involves not only physical survival and achievement—Demeter's grain and fruit—it is also concerned with guiding a child to his or her unknown depths and the mystery of fate.”
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“Soul is to be found in the vicinity of taboo.”
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“I thought that the light-house looked lovely as hope, That star on life's tremulous ocean.”
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“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.”
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“I have plenty of machinery around me; what I really need is a more enchanting world in which to live and work.”
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“Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.”
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“It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.”
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“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.”
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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.”
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