Bertrand Russell Quotes

I write a lot more when I'm happy, because you're hopeful, you're motivated.

You have to believe 100 percent in what you're doing, that some picture or some thing we do is going to change the world in some tiny, minute way.

People's lives do not have to be drab and dreary and wrapped in old newspapers. The deserve something for the soul and noble visions.

If you hear a good song, it makes you hopeful like, 'That is out there.'

Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Write what you love. Love will hold you through the hard times and hold the world during the good times.

The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.

I always tell people that revelling in big ideas for me is kind of like an antidote to existential angst.

There's lots of fun in this world, after all. And if there isn't, there is in the next. And we're going there, sure.

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism.

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

I have to be creative to be happy.

Pizza makes me think that anything is possible.

I couldn't be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because I'm pretty optimistic.

Every day I am inspired by what's possible.

It is hazardous to discourage thought, hope or imagination …

I think the value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear. I'm not trying to be anyone's savior. That is not the -- I'm just trying to think about the future and not be sad.

I find that when I write for children, I am more hopeful, less cynical. I don't use different words or a different sentence structure. I just hope more.

I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy.

If you're not an optimist, forget being an artist.

I don't write stories about despair. I write stories about hope.