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

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

— Thomas Moore

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

— Thomas Moore

Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.

— Thomas Moore

From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odor to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.

— Thomas Moore

Gnostic tales tell of the homesickness of the soul, it's yearning for its own milieu…

— Thomas Moore

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

— Thomas Moore

I’m interested in this humbler approach, one that is more accepting of human foibles, and indeed sees dignity and peace as emerging more from that acceptance than from any method of transcending the human condition.

— Thomas Moore

In the fifteenth century, Marsilio Ficino put it as simply as possible. The mind, he said, tends to go off on its own so that it seems to have no relevance to the physical world. At the same time, the materialistic life can be so absorbing that we get caught in it and forget about spirituality. What we need, he said, is soul, in the middle, holding together mind and body, ideas and life, spirituality and the world.

— Thomas Moore

I thought that the lighthouse looked lovely as hope, That star on life's tremulous ocean.

— Thomas Moore