Basil Rathbone Quotes

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

The loving parts of your personality have no trouble loving. That is all they do. You experience the loving parts of as gratitude, appreciation, caring, patience, contentment and awe of life.

Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace.

All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice - the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows - awaits us within ourselves.

Happiness does not consist in self-love.

I think I am a very kind person. I think I'm joyful, but I could be kinder and I could be more joyful. I do believe peace is a state of grace, and not the absence of violence.

Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.

My brothers and sisters, true love is a reflection of the Savior's love. In December of each year we call it the Christmas spirit. You can hear it. You can see it. You can feel it.

The most important thing is never to forget to always have love in your heart.

We experience God to the extent to which we love, forgive, and focus on the good in others and ourselves.

Self pity is the worst possible disease that can affect mankind. And if we do just the opposite, which is love, then we have God's feelings with us at all times.

Today I forgive all those who have ever offended me. I give my love to all thirsty hearts, both to those who love me and to those who do not love me.

There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.

The most heroic thing you can do is tell someone that you love them.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don't give your heart to anything, but the love of those whose hearts are glad.

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.

There is no fear when you choose love. The more you choose love, the more love is in your life. It gets easier and easier.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.