Magical Fairy Quotes About Wonder and Believing

These magical fairy quotes are about wonder: the kind that makes a kid check under mushrooms for tiny doors, and the kind grown-ups need on a long Tuesday. Use them for journals, classroom walls, birthday cards and fairy party signs.

Want more than mystical? Fairy quotes for every mood rounds up the sweet, the silly and the seasonal too.

Roald Dahl, J.M. Barrie, Lord Byron and Neil Gaiman are all here with their sources, and the sayings nobody can trace are labeled as popular. Our best fairy quotes page lists every fairy collection we have.

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Quick Picks: Magical Fairy Quotes

Five to copy into a journal tonight.

“Why be normal when you can be magical?”
“Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” (Roald Dahl, The Minpins)
“Leave room in your garden for the fairies to dance.”
“Wisdom begins in wonder.” (attributed to Socrates)
“Fairy dust and cuddles are magic.”

The first, third and last are popular sayings.

Magical Quotes About Believing

For anyone who still looks twice at a ring of mushrooms.

From Roald Dahl

“Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”
Roald Dahl, The Minpins

“I still believe in magic.”
“Always believe in magic.”
“Fairies exist.”
“Magic is believing in yourself. If you can do that, you can make anything happen.” (often attributed to Goethe, source unconfirmed)
“If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.” (attributed to Danielle Steel)

The first three are popular sayings.

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Be Your Own Kind of Magical

Little pep talks for kids who march to their own drum.

“Why be normal when you can be magical?”
“Find that magical place in your world and live there.”
“Stay a little bit magical.”
“Be the magic you want to see.”
“Sparkle like you mean it.”

From the poets

“Such is the power of thought, the magic of the mind!”
Lord Byron, The Corsair

The last one is an original 3BoysAndADog saying. The others are popular sayings.

Magic in Everyday Moments

Proof that magic does not need a wand.

“Fairy dust and cuddles are magic.”
“Leave room in your garden for the fairies to dance.”
“Magic lives in the little things.”
“The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.” (Eden Phillpotts, A Shadow Passes)
“Bedtime stories are the best kind of magic.”

The last one is an original 3BoysAndADog saying. The first three are popular sayings.

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Fairy Tale Wisdom Worth Keeping

Bigger ideas from writers who took fairy tales seriously.

Why fairy tales matter

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
G.K. Chesterton, as retold by Neil Gaiman in Coraline

“Wisdom begins in wonder.” (attributed to Socrates)
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” (attributed to Albert Einstein)
“Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.” (J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan)
“Once upon a time is a magical place to start.”

The last one is an original 3BoysAndADog saying. The Socrates and Einstein lines are widely shared, but neither appears word for word in their own writing.