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Best Quotes by Thomas Moore (Top 10)
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It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed
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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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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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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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Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.
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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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Go where we may, rest where we will, Eternal London haunts us still.
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Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.
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Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities—that's training or instruction—but is rather a making visible what is hidden as a seed... To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life... One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
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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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More Thomas Moore Quotes
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.
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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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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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Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.
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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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Love doesn't demand perfection, but it does ask you to give yourself with less reserve than you'd prefer.
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Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
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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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It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
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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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Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her hand she bore.
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