Inscription Suggestions

With an appropriate custom inscription, Maria's personalized illustrations are ideal for almost any situation. Search the web for that perfect quote and have Maria inscribe it onto your favorite print from her collection. Or, you can choose from some of these quotes and phrases we've collected.

Love

The best thing to hold onto in this world is each other.
Love comforts like sunshine after rain. (Shakespeare)
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, with the same person.
It is never too late to fall in love.
If I had a flower for every time I think of you, I could walk forever in my garden. (C. Ghandi)
The Perfect Pair (Include a couples' names together with the date of their wedding, engagement or anniversary – perfect for pear botanical illustration) .
I write you letters by the thousands in my thoughts. (Beethoven)

Friendship

Flowers of true friendship never fade.
Your wealth is where your friends are.
The road to a friend's house is never long.
Ah, how good it feels . . . the hand of an old friend. (Longfellow)
Happy is the house that shelters a friend. (Emerson)

Home, Birth, Adoption

Home is where your (our) (the) story begins.
In the shelter of each other, the people live. (Gaelic proverb)
Roads taken far away from you are many. Do not fear, Mother; they all lead back. (A. Levine)
A new baby is like the beginning of all things – wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. (Ed J. Leshan)
Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face. (George Eliot)
Not flesh of my flesh, Nor bone of my bone, But still miraculously my own.
Never forget for a single minute, You didn't grow under my heart, But in it. (Fleur Conkling Heylinger)

Inspiration

To accomplish great things one must not only act, but dream.
Wait not for tomorrow. Gather from today the roses of life.
If you have to choose one critical ingredient of success, it's passion. (Carver Mead)
Age is not important unless you're a cheese. (Helen Hayes)
Every artist was first an amateur. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Follow your bliss. (Joseph Campbell)
You have to dream before dreams can come true. (Abdul Kalam)
I am not afraid of storms, for I have learned to sail my ship. (Louisa May Alcott)
We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are. (The Talmud)
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
Be the change you wish to see in the world. (Gandhi)
It's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years.
If you can dream it, you can do it. (Walt Disney)
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. (Henry David Thoreau)
If your dream is big enough, the facts don't count. (Don Ward)
It's kind of fun to do the impossible. (Walt Disney)
To live is so startling it leaves time for little else. (Emily Dickinson)
You must not only aim aright, but draw the bow will all your might. (Henry David Thoreau)
Better by far that you should forget and smile, than you should remember and be sad. (Christina Rossetti)
No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy. (Ayn Rand)
Whether you think you can, or think you can't, you are usually right. (Henry Ford)
If winter comes, can spring be far behind? (Percy Shelley)
Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was. (Richard L. Evans)
There can be no offense where none is taken. (Japanese proverb)
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great. (Zig Ziglar)
Take a chance! All life is chance. (Dale Carnegie)
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. (Helen Keller)
Do, or do not. There is no try. (Yoda)
If peace be in the heart, the wildest winter storm is full of solemn beauty. (C.F. Richardson)
Hitch your wagon to a star. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
If you're already walking on thin ice, you might as well dance. (Gill Atkinson)
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. (Emily Dickinson)
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. (Albert Einstein)
Many tangles in life are so ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter. (G. Walport)
In every thing give thanks. (1 Thessalonians 5:18)
Don't worry. Be happy.
Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?
Never let yesterday use up too much of today. (Will Rogers)
No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings. (William Blake)
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. (Oscar Wilde)
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. (Henry David Thoreau)
Imagination is more important than knowledge. (Albert Einstein)
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. (Jane Austen)

Bereavement

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. (Proust)
May the delightful memories fill your sorrowful heart with joy.
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened (Ted Geisel - Dr. Suess)
Dawn is born at midnight. (Carl Jung)
I will not forget you. I have carved you on the palm of my hand. (Isaiah 49:15)
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. (Clyde Campbell)
Keep your faith in all beautiful things; in the sun when it is hidden, in the Spring when it is gone. (Roy R. Gibson)