{"author":"Thomas Moore","author_id":"Thomas+Moore","total_quotes":44,"quotes":[{"text":"It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed.","author":"Thomas Moore","tags":["madness","mystery","philosphy","soul"],"id":21037,"author_id":"Thomas+Moore"},{"text":"Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.","author":"Thomas Moore","tags":["life","life-lessons","work"],"id":22561,"author_id":"Thomas+Moore"},{"text":"Love doesn't demand perfection, but it does ask you to give yourself with less reserve than you'd prefer.","author":"Thomas Moore","tags":["love","perfection"],"id":49125,"author_id":"Thomas+Moore"},{"text":"Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.","author":"Thomas Moore","tags":["woman","rules","will "],"id":59072,"author_id":"Thomas+Moore"},{"text":"It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.","author":"Thomas Moore","tags":["happy","luxury","tears "],"id":66753,"author_id":"Thomas+Moore"},{"text":"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.","author":"Thomas Moore","tags":["spirituality"],"id":96585,"author_id":"Thomas+Moore"},{"text":"... Ongoing care for the soul rather than seek for a cure appreciates the mystery of human suffering and does not offer the illusion of a problem-free life.I sees every fall into ignorance and confusion as an opportunity to discover that the beast residing at the center of the labyrinth is also an angel.To approach this paradoxial point of tension where adjustment and abnormality meet is to move closer to the realization of our mystery-filled, star-born nature.It is a beast this thing that stirs in the core of our being, but it is also the star of our innermost nature.We have to care for this suffering with extreme reverence so that in our fear and anger at the beast, we do not overlock the star.~Thomas Moore *Care of the Soul*.","author":"Thomas Moore","tags":["beast","care","soul","star"],"id":108438,"author_id":"Thomas+Moore"},{"text":"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.","author":"Thomas Moore","tags":["transformation"],"id":110341,"author_id":"Thomas+Moore"},{"text":"Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.","author":"Thomas Moore","tags":["light","memory","me "],"id":112047,"author_id":"Thomas+Moore"},{"text":"And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.","author":"Thomas Moore","tags":["flowers","heart","thorns "],"id":128767,"author_id":"Thomas+Moore"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":44,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}