Thomas Moore: Trending quotes

“Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side
In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?”

“Fly not yet; 't is just the hour
When pleasure, like the midnight flower
That scorns the eye of vulgar light,
Begins to bloom for sons of night
And maids who love the moon.”

“We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.”

“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.”

“Go where we may, rest where we will,
Eternal London haunts us still.”

“And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers
Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.”

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

“Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.”

“The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.”

“You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will,
But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.”

“A genuine odyssey is not about piling up experiences. It is a deeply felt, risky, unpredictable tour of the soul.”

“The key to seeing the world's soul, and in the process wakening our own, is to get over the confusion by which we think that fact is real and imagination is illusion.”

“The devil… the prowde spirite… cannot endure to be mocked.”

“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.”

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

“Take all the pleasures of all the spheres,
And multiply each through endless years,—
One minute of heaven is worth them all.”

“A friendship that like love is warm;
A love like friendship, steady.”

“Man for his glory
To ancestry flies;
But Woman's bright story
Is told in her eyes.”

“If thou would'st have me sing and play
As once I play'd and sung,
First take this time-worn lute away,
And bring one freshly strung.”