My Wish Quotes

• Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.

  Brad Paisley

  Motivational, New Year, Inspiration

  Twitter post from Dec 31, 2009

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• Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.98, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• My wish isn't to mean
  everything to everyone
  but something to someone.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mean, Wish

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• This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Smile, Confidence, Patience

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• Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

  Oprah Winfrey

  New Year, Cheer, New Beginnings

  FaceBook post by Oprah Winfrey from Jan 03, 2012

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• I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.

  Neil Gaiman

  Change, Wisdom, New Year

  "My New Year Wish" by Neil Gaiman, journal.neilgaiman.com. December 31, 2011.

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  All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.

  Steven Spielberg

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "American Morning" with Bill Hemmer, www.cnn.com. June 20, 2002.

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• For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, New Year, New Beginnings

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.150, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.17, Harvard University Press

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• Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Cute, Positive, Leadership

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• I got my wish, I suppose. I left my scar.

  John Green

  Wish, Scar, Left

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.177, Penguin

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• If possible, forget the past. Look forward to the future.

  Henry Watkins Allen

  Happy Birthday, War, Past

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• There is still no cure for the common birthday.

  John Glenn

  Happy Birthday, Friends, Funny Birthday

  "Ohio's Sen. Glenn Won't Run Again In 1998" by Candy Crowley, www.cnn.com.

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• Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Christmas, Xmas, Real

  "Chicken soup for the soul Christmas treasury for kids" by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Patty Hansen, Irene Dunlap, HCI, (p. 1), 2002.

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• May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall!

  Aleister Crowley

  New Year, Courage, Fall

  Aleister Crowley (2015). “Moonchild”, p.139, Booklassic

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• Learn from yesterday, live for today.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, New Year, Hope

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• I once had a dreams of becoming a beautiful poet, but upon an unfortunate series of events some of those dreams dashed and divided like a million stars in the night sky that I wished on over and over again, sparkling and broken. But I didn't really mind, because I knew that it takes getting everything you ever wanted, and then losing it to know what true freedom is.

  Lana Del Rey

  Beautiful, Dream, Stars

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• It takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it, to know what true freedom is.

  Lana Del Rey

  Appreciation, Trust No One, Wish

  "Lana Del Rey: Ride". Short, Drama, Music, www.imdb.com. 2012.

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• I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.

  Neil Gaiman

  New Year, Mistake, Years

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• May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early!

  Aleister Crowley

  New Year, Years, Old Year

  Aleister Crowley (2015). “Moonchild”, p.139, Booklassic

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  My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Kindness

  Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou”, p.71, Random House

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• Make your mistakes, next year and forever.

  Neil Gaiman

  New Year, Mistake, Years

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• Glory to God in highest heaven, Who unto man His Son hath given; While angels sing with tender mirth, A glad new year to all the earth.

  Martin Luther

  New Year, Spiritual, Angel

  Martin Luther, “From Heaven Above To Earth I Come”

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• Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Happiness, New Year, Hope

  "The Foresters, Robin Hood and Maid Marian". Play by Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1892.

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• Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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