248 Quotes by Thomas Moore

Care of the soul begins with observance of how the soul manifests itself and how it operates. We can’t care for the soul unless we are familiar with its ways. Observance is a word from ritual and religion. It means to watch out for but also to keep and honor, as in the observance of a holiday.

Faith is a gift of spirit that allows the soul to remain attached to its own unfolding. When faith is soulful, it is always planted in the soil of wonder and questioning. It isn’t a defensive and anxious holding on to certain objects of belief, because doubt, as its shadow, can be brought into a faith that is fully mature. Imagine.

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

Only when you are fully engaged can you see the activity that will make your life feel worth living.

The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.

Maybe one function of love is to cure us of an anemic imagination, a life emptied of romantic attachment and abandoned to reason.

With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence – o’er and o’er again Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain, And memory, like a drop that, night and day, Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away!

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch’d by the thorns.

All that’s bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that’s sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest.