It is in the nature of things to be drawn to the very experiences that will spoil our innocence, transform our lives, and give us necessary complexity and depth.

— Thomas Moore

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

— Thomas Moore

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

— Thomas Moore

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.

— Thomas Moore

It's important to be heroic ambitious productive efficient creative and progressive but these qualities don't necessarily nurture the 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.

— Thomas Moore

Love doesn't demand perfection, but it does ask you to give yourself with less reserve than you'd prefer.

— Thomas Moore

Love releases us into the realm of divine imagination, where the soul is expanded and reminded of its unearthly cravings and needs. We think that when a lover inflates his loved one he is failing to acknowledge her flaws - "Love is blind." But it may be the other way around. Love allows a person to see the true angelic nature of another person, the halo, the aureole of divinity. Certainly from the perspective of ordinary life this is madness and illusion. But if we let loose our hold on our philosophies and psychologies of enlightenment and reason, we might learn to appreciate the perspective of eternity that enters life as madness, Plato's divine frenzy.

— Thomas Moore

Most of the people I know who are having trouble finding their life work are somewhat passive in style. They wait for something good to happen to them rather than make strong positive moves.

— Thomas Moore

Music, oh, how faint, how weak, Language fades before thy spell! Why should Feeling ever speak, When thou canst breathe her soul so well?

— Thomas Moore

No, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream.

— Thomas Moore