Our hand-picked collection of short yet profound literary quotes that span the centuries!
Best part: all of these are the perfect length to be used on our custom engraved wooden phone cases and metal key chains. Engrave them on a personalized gift item for yourself, or give one as a heart-felt gift.
"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."
— Neil Gaiman , Coraline
“The distance is nothing when one has a motive.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“To thine own self be true.”
— Shakespeare, Hamlet
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."
—Martin Luther King Jr.
“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.”
– Shakespeare, Hamlet
“Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”
— Ronald Dahl
“And, now that you don’t have to be perfect you can be good.”
—John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
— Shakespeare, Hamlet
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“But in the end it's only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
“That’s what alchemists do. They show that, when we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.”
– Walt Whitman
“A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.“
– Rumi
Love does not need a reason. It speaks from the irrational wisdom of the heart.”
– Rumi
"And still, after all this time,
The sun never says to the earth,
"You owe Me."
Look what happens with
A love like that,
It lights the Whole Sky."
— Hafez
“I exist as I am, that is enough. If no other in the world be aware I sit content. And if each and all be aware I sit content.
— Walt Whitman
“The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.”
— Walt Whitman
“I’ve been through all this before,” he says to his heart. “Yes, you have…but you have never been beyond it.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
—Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
“So many things are possible just as long as you don’t know they’re impossible.”
—Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
“To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield”
― Lord Tennyson, Ulysses
“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
"And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about."
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
“With freedom, books, flowers and the moon, who could not be happy?”
– Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."
– Samuel Beckett, Westward Ho
All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.”
– Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet In Heaven
“Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.”
– Rita Mae Brown, Hiss of Death
“When you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worthwhile.”
– Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“For the strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack."
– Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
“Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.”
– Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
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