Arundhati Roy Quotes

To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.

Usually going places makes me feel optimistic. And I'm a hillbilly, so heading to the countryside made sense a number of ways.

Hope is like a path in the countryside.

When I picture England, I picture little gardens and beautiful yards. I don't really like cities; I like to go and see things like that.

Sometimes in the morning, when it's a good surf, I go out there, and I don't feel like it's a bad world.

People who put my paintings on their walls are putting their values on their walls: faith, family, home, a simpler way of living, the beauty of nature, quiet, tranquillity, peace, joy, hope. They beckon you into this world that provides an alternative to your nightly news broadcast.

I would say I'm an optimist by nature.

I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains....My advice is: Go outside, to the fields, enjoy nature and the sunshine, go out and try to recapture happiness in yourself and in God. Think of all the beauty that's still left in and around you and be happy!

I've found that there is always some beauty left -- in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.

It is easy to be hopeful in the day when you can see the things you wish on.

Invincible is never how I felt, but optimistic... yes.

There are nettles everywhere, but smooth, green grasses are more common still; the blue of heaven is larger than the cloud.

But you have to have hope. You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.

In optimism there is magic. In pessimism there is nothing.

May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

I am basically optimistic.

I sincerely believe that everything - everything - is grace, and you have to stick around long enough to see it through. I'm a very optimistic person.

It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.

Despite everything, life is full of beauty and meaning.

I've never written a song that's hopeless. I'm not a hopeless person. I'm crazily optimistic. I crazily see the good in people. I crazily see the way out of a terrible situation. I crazily try to be the diplomat. If there are two warring factions in my life, I want them to agree to disagree at the very least.

I always felt the world cannot fall apart as long as free men see the rainbow, feel the rain and hear the laugh of a child.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

I thought, this is a good sign. There's something perfect and right about this.

I am a very hopeful person.

I'm a born, cautious optimist.