Thomas Moore > Quotes

“Observance is homeopathic in its workings rather than allopathic, in the paradoxical way that it befriends a problem rather than making an enemy of it.”
― Thomas Moore, Care of the Soul and The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life

“If we could understand this fundamental intuition about the soul, that it is given raw, then we might forgive ourselves and oth-ers for not being quick to handle relationships with grace. We might see that many problems are not due to one person's mali-ciousness but to the law that soul stuff is given in unrefined lumps and requires a long process of sorting, shaping, refining, and even transmuting-all operations of the tradition of alchemy. A re-lationship problem may be like the piece of marble Michelangelo confronted with his hammer and chisel: the inner figure waiting to be sculpted out is not easy to perceive and is certainly invisible except to a poetic eye.”
― Thomas Moore, Soul Mates, Honoring the Mysteries of Love and Rel

“All that's bright must fade,--
The brightest still the fleetest;
All that's sweet was made
But to be lost when sweetest.”
― Thomas Moore

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

“Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.”
― Thomas Moore

“I'm trying to articulate myself, so that maybe I can talk about it later, that it's strange how when you meet people you have no idea what impact they're potentially going to have — or not — on your life, on your whole being. The crazy thing is, even afterwards, it's hard to really understand that — especially if it's been reciprocated or just one-sided. As always, my thoughts fall back on you.”
― Thomas Moore, We'll Never Be Fragile Again