Quotes by 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.

True change takes place in the imagination.

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

It's important to give life to years, not just years to life

When Time who steals our years away Shall steal our pleasures too, The mem'ry of the past will stay, And half our joys renew.

We work with the stuff of the soul by means of the things of life.

The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light there is shed upon them.

Spirituality is seeded, germinates, spouts and blossoms in the mundane. It is to be found and nurtured in the smallest of daily activities.

Weep on! and as thy sorrows flow, I'll taste the luxury of woe.

How shall we rank thee upon glory's page, Thou more than soldier, and just less than sage?