Quote Pendants

Quote Pendants

Cassandra's quote pendants began when her cousin asked Cassandra to engrave some words from her grandmother. Not wanting the words to be easily readable by others , Cassandra engraved the pendant ´like the French arrondissements : en colimacon (like a snail, spiraling out from the centre) '. Soon, others followed: words of wisdom , encouragement and even prayers. Cassandra continues to add to her Quote pendants whenever she finds words that inspire her.

Cassandra has also undertaken bespoke projects of quotes or words; they can be written in the writer's own handwriting, in any language and to any design.

Through two of her Quote pendants Cassandra has found a way to 'give back': 'Onwards' for the Endeavour Fund and 'May Love abound all round' for Horatio's Garden.

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Do not follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and make a trail.
The words from Cassandra's first quote pendant.

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For the Adventurous

Do not follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and make a trail.

Inspiring words from Cassandra's Cousin

Follow a map to its edges. Let the journey unfold before you.

Unknown.

If you don't explore you'll never discover.

From Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll.

Onwards…

From the writings of Henry Worsley, the Shackleton Antarctic expedition explorer.

The world is your oyster...

From William Shakespeare's 'The Merry Wives of Windsor.'

You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

(On ne découvre pas de terre nouvelle sans consentir à perdre de vue, d'abord et longtemps, tout rivage). From Les faux-monnayeurs (The Counterfeiters)

Le jour appartient à ceux qui se lèvent tôt

('The day is theirs who wake early'). Attributed to Henry Gauthier-Villars and later adopted by Jules Renard.

For the Spiritual

Be thou my vision O Lord of my heart…

Words from the Irish poem "Rop tú mo Baile", and often attributed to Saint Dallán Forgaill in the 6th century.

Give me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

From the Serenity prayer.

The sower Arepo holds the wheels with care.

Pater Noster (Our Father): This secret code was displayed by Christians during Roman times.

Visible things are temporal, the Invisible are eternal...

Words from Corinthians Ch.4 v14 - Ch.5 v1.

May the road rise up to meet you. May the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face; the rains fall soft upon your fields and until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of His hand.

Words from an Irish blessing

For the Brave

Be brave my heart, have courage my soul.

Anon.

Courage, perseverance, patience.

Inspiring words from a friend of Cassandra.

Dare, always dare…

Specially created by Cassandra for the Old Vic to commemorate their 200th anniversary in 2018.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

Henry Thoreau, 1817-1862.

He who feared he would not succeed, sat still.

(Sedit qui timuit ne non succederet). Horace.

Never assume…

From a friend of Cassandra.

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think.

A.A. Milne.

The golden thread of courage has no end.

It is the last line of a poem sent to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II which she read in her Christmas speech to the nation in 1981.

For the Dreamers

Everyone is the age of their heart.

From Cassandra's Journey to Brazil.

Feet, what do I need them for if I have wings to fly.

Words from the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo.

I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.

From the poem Invictus by W. E. Henley.

La modernité, c'est le transitoire, le fugitif, le contingent, la moitié de l'art, dont l'autre est l'éternel et l'immuable. Il y a eu une modernité pour chaque peintre ancien.

Charles Baudelaire, French poet.

Only with long experience and the opening of your wares on many a beach, where your language is not spoken, will you come to know the worth of what you carry. The delicate goods of justice, love, honour, forgiveness and courtesy are valid everywhere.

Freya Stark, British explorer and writer.

Qui vit sans folie n'est pas si sage qu'il croit.

(He who lives without fun is not as wise as he thinks). Madame Guerlain.

What is it you will do with your one wild and precious life...

Mary Oliver, poet.

Always remember the sense of wonder in the everyday...

Anon.

May love abound all round...

In memory of Horatio Chapple, an aspiring doctor.

'Life is like an ice cream, enjoy it before it melts'

Charles Schulz

Soyez Mysterieuses

('Be Mysterious'). From the words engraved in wood by the French artist Paul Gauguin, on his house on Atuona in the Marquesas islands, in French Polynesia.

From Historical Greats

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Mahatma Gandhi.

Love the life you live, live the life you love.

Inspired by the words of Bob Marley.

May tomorrow see the end of all our difficulties. Difficulties are just things to overcome after all.

E.H. Shackleton, 1909, Antarctic expedition.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Nelson Mandela.

When I hoped I feared… since I hoped I dared.

Words from the poem LXVI, by Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886.

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Bespoke Quote Pendants

A Gift to Treasure

The combination of my love of jewellery, typefaces and the art of lettering and literature is all contained in my Quote pendants. When I find a new quote, I play with the words, with the serifs, with the layout. I ponder it over time to be sure it offers encouragement and empowers the wearer wherever their life may take them. I love to think of godparents, grandparents and friends sharing the quotes, binding them together through life, however far apart they may be.

Bespoke

Cassandra keeps a commonplace book into which she notes down phrases, quotations from novels and poems, and sayings in any language. Cassandra has also undertaken bespoke projects using quotes and words that have been brought to her. They can be in any language, created in any design and even written in the writer's own handwriting.