67 Heartfelt Wishes And Quotes

In the whirlwind of our busy lives, it's easy to overlook the power of expressing heartfelt emotions. Whether it's a birthday, an anniversary, or just another ordinary day, sharing sincere wishes and quotes can deepen connections and uplift spirits. This collection of 67 heartfelt wishes and quotes is designed to inspire, comfort, and celebrate the special moments and relationships in your life. From timeless words of wisdom to modern musings, let these expressions guide you in articulating the sentiments you hold dear, ensuring your message resonates with warmth and authenticity. Join us on this journey of words that touch the heart and soul.

1. “May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.” - George Carlin

2. “These... things, householder, are welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard to obtain in the world:Long life is welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard to obtain in the world.Beauty is welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard to obtain in the world.Happiness is welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard to obtain in the world.Status is welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard to obtain in the world....Now, I tell you, these... things are not to be obtained by reason of prayers or wishes. If they were to be obtained by reason of prayers or wishes, who here would lack them? It's not fitting for the disciple of the noble ones who desires long life to pray for it or to delight in doing so. Instead, the disciple of the noble ones who desires long life should follow the path of practice leading to long life. In so doing, he will attain long life...[Ittha Sutta, AN 5.43]” - Buddha

3. “If you are a dreamer come inIf you are a dreamer a wisher a liarA hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyerIf youre a pretender com sit by my fireFor we have some flax golden tales to spinCome in! Come in!” - Shel Silverstein

4. “Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.” - T.S. Eliot

5. “Wish on everything. Pink cars are good, especially old ones. And stars of course, first stars and shooting stars. Planes will do if they are the first light in the sky and look like stars. Wish in tunnels, holding your breath and lifting your feet off the ground. Birthday candles. Baby teeth.” - Francesca Lia Block

6. “If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.” - Lev Grossman

7. “Desire grows by what it feeds on.” - L.M. Montgomery

8. “Most people say if you tell a wish it won't come true. But I don't think wishes work like that. I don't believe there's some bad-tempered wish-fairy with a clipboard, checking off whether or not you've told...But it's a long shot I'll get my wish, so even if there is a fairy in charge of telling, it won't matter.'I wish everyone had the same chances,' I say. 'Because it stinks a big one that they don't. What about you? What did you wish for?''Grape soda.'I can't help smiling. 'You wished for grape soda?' He doesn't answer, and I pull my hand from my pocket. Taking one of his fluttering hands, I wrap his fingers tightly around a dollar. 'Wish granted, toad.'He takes off running and Dad runs after him.I close my eyes and make a new wish.I wish the refreshment stand has grape soda.” - Cynthia Lord

9. “Quería eso, pero esperaba más. Sufre uno por aquello que espera, más que por lo que quiere. Aceptamos que los deseos puedan ser imposibles, pero jamás las expectativas, que son como las deudas del destino.” - Xavier Velasco

10. “Hals und Beinbruch, Saukerl.” - Markus Zusak

11. “I am anti-social and have a dark personality. I have no redeeming qualties and nothing to offer, therefore I could never have what I wanted” - Novala Takemoto

12. “There's no point having wishes if you don't at least try to do them” - Sally Nicholls

13. “All paradises, all utopias are defined by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.[Conversation with Elizabeth Farnsworth, PBS NewsHour, March 9, 1998]” - Toni Morrison

14. “You should never wish for wishful thinking.” - Rachel Cohn

15. “We often confuse what we wish for with what is.” - Neil Gaiman

16. “يارب فزدني من حبكزدني من حبكفأنا رغم عطائك أشواقوأنا رغم سخائك مشتاقزدني من حبكحتى لا أحتاج إلى أحدزدني من حبك حتى تجعلنيأنسى أبواب الناس وسلطتهمأنسى سوطتهمزدني من حبك حتى أصنع آفاقيظني بك يا ربي كريماًومحباً ورحيماًزدني حباً يغمرني كالطوفانيجرفني عبر الجنة” - محمد الصوياني

17. “If he had to wish, what would he wish for, he asked himself. What was there to wish for... a wish asked for the unattainable. The impossible.” - Dalene Matthee

18. “That's coral!" she cried in astonishment. "We must be down in the deeps of the sea!"Well, wasn't that what you wanted?" said the trout. "I thought you wished you could see the sea!"I did," said Jane, looking very surprised. "But I never expected the wish to come true."Great oceans! Why bother to wish it then? I call that simply a waste of time. But come on! Mustn't be late for the party!” - P.L. Travers

19. “If wishes were held on the skin and swiped by raindrops, then emotions were freeloading off the cells that made up their space. The only offering these cells ever entertained was truth, painful and raw.” - Amy Guth

20. “Nesreća nesrećnih ljudi i jeste u tome što za njih stvari koje su inače zabranjene postanu, za trenutak dostižne i lake, ili bar tako izgledaju, a kada se jednom trajno usele u njihove želje, one se pokažu opet kao ono što jesu: nedostupne i zabranjene, sa svim posledicama koje to ima po one koji za njima ipak posegnu.” - Ivo Andrić

21. “They say that dogs may dream, and when Topsy was old, his feet would move in his sleep. With his eyes closed he would often make a noise that sounded quite human, as if greeting someone in his dreams. At first it seemed that he believed Sara would return, but as the years went by I understood that his loyalty asked for no reward, and that love comes in unexpected forms. His wish was small, as hers had been -- merely to be beside her. As for me, I already knew I would never get what I wanted.” - Alice Hoffman

22. “Wishes of one's old life wither and shrivel like old leaves if they are not replaced with new wishes when the world changes. And the world always changes. Wishes get slimy, and their colors fade, and soon they are just mud, like all the rest of the mud, and not wishes at all, but regrets. The trouble is, not everyone can tell when they ought to launder their wishes. Even when one finds oneself in Fairyland and not at home at all, it is not always so easy to remember to catch the world in it's changing and change with it.” - Catherynne M. Valente

23. “Have faith little one ‘til your hopes and your wishes come true. You must try to be brave.” - The Rescuers

24. “To grant all a man's wishes is to take away his dreams and ambitions. Life is only worth living if you have something to strive for. To aim at.” - P.B. Kerr

25. “I've wished for things and never really had the chance...It's time to stop dreaming and do something about it. You've got to know what you want, then...go.” - Deb Caletti

26. “Mortals always want something more- they wish for money, but what they're really after is to be carefree. Power when what they really want is control. Beauty when they want love. Sometimes they know it, sometimes they don't” - Jackson Pearce

27. “Now that you know the wishing ways, you'll feel the wishes around you. They'll make you itchy, 'cause you know you can do something about them, but that ain't always the best idea.” - Sarah Zettel

28. “You can't wish for more wishes or for vague generalities like happiness that are impossible to grant. Your wish has to be something specific enough that I can use my wand to make it happen. Oh, and recently there's been a ban on inserting yourself into the Twilight series. The Cullens are tired of different teenage girls pinging into their story every time they turn around.” - Janette Rallison

29. “I imagine what would happen if everyone turned their regrets into wishes, went around shouting them.” - Nina LaCour

30. “And wishes, truly wishes, that she could say the same herself. Because hurting herself would be so much easier.” - Amy Efaw

31. “Felix had gone to live in a lotus land of his imagination. Where what is desired is dreamed of as already happened, where obstacles dissolve under the weight of desire, and where reality has vanished entirely.” - Iain Pears

32. “I made a sorry face in response to such strong insistence, but I couldn’t believe him. Fantasies were exactly that―fantasies. Whimsy. Wishes. Mere castles in the sky without foundation or substance. Dreams didn’t come true. To believe so would be to believe falsely, to surrender to madness, to give in to an unreliable hope that would crush me once again as it always, always did!” - Richelle E. Goodrich

33. “Formerly, when I would feel a desire to understand someone, or myself, I would take into consideration not actions, in which everything is relative, but wishes. Tell me what you want and I'll tell you who you are.” - Anton Chekhov

34. “If you have one wish, wish for everything to be exactly as it is. Then wait patiently for your wish to come true.” - Stephen Russell

35. “I still watch her now, like I always did, and she watches me, her brown eyes looking out from a wolf's face. This is the story of a boy who used to be a wolf, and a girl who became one.I won't let this be my last good-bye. I've folded one thousand paper cranes of me and Grace, and I've made my wish. I will find a cure. And then I will find Grace.” - Maggie Stiefvater

36. “إن بيننا وبين الله رابطة لا تنفصم، فإذا نحن أخضعنا أنفسنا لإشرافه - سبحانه وتعالى - تحققت أمنياتنا وآمالنا كلها.” - William James

37. “Enttäuschung und Frustration werden [...] alle erleben, die sich wie im Märchen danach sehnen, Glück in einem Schlaraffenland zu finden ... Nur, dass unser Schlaraffenland nicht ein großer Berg von süßem Brei ist ... wir haben andere Fantasien und Bilder von Fülle und Erfülltheit in einem imaginären Schlaraffenland, das nur eben unglücklicherweise niemals dort ist, wo wir tatsächlich leben. Vielmehr leben wir mit der Hoffnung auf ein Glück, das uns das Schicksal irgenwann einmal gewähren müsse. [...] So können wir das Schlaraffenland je nach unserer eigenen Fasson ausgestalten - und wir tun es. Privat und auch gesellschaftlich.Doch sobald wir anfangen, uns mit diesem Glücksmodell anzufreunden, und gespannt darauf warten, wie im Lotto das große Los zu ziehen, werden wir auf einem Weg sein, wo das Glück ganz bestimmt nicht zu uns findet! Wir bleiben hungrig und ungesättigt. Denn geheimnisvollerweise ist das Glück dort, wo wir Bezogenheit leben - selbst in dem unspektatulärsten Tun des Alltags.” - Joachim Gauck

38. “...a dream isn't a wish - it's an altered state of consciousness ...” - John Geddes

39. “A los mortales os hace falta compañía porque tenéis tristeza, deseos y un tiempo limitado de vida.” - Jackson Pearce

40. “May Light always surround you;Hope kindle and rebound you.May your Hurts turn to Healing;Your Heart embrace Feeling.May Wounds become Wisdom;Every Kindness a Prism.May Laughter infect you;Your Passion resurrect you.May Goodness inspire your Deepest Desires.Through all that you Reach For, May your arms Never Tire.” - D. Simone

41. “Lots of men think that women should tell the truth, explain their feelings. These men should use their wishes more wisely. (Prepare To Die!, p.27)” - Paul Tobin

42. “the whole point of the wish business was to see to it that what the client got was exactly what he asked for and exactly what he didn't really want.” - Terry Pratchett

43. “World peace, true love, and happily-ever-afters amount to wasted wishes, failed endeavors, and most precious dreams.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

44. “Miki-san... do you truly want that person's dream to come true? Or is it that you want to be that person's savior for making that dream come true? If you're going to fulfill someone else's dream, that's the time when it's most important to be sure you know your own wish. The two might seem the same, but they're entirely different.” - Magica Quartet

45. “...We understood nothing at all. Not what it meant to wish for a miracle... nor its price.” - Magica Quartet

46. “I have yet to be completely submerged in reality, for drowning in the sky.” - Kellie Elmore

47. “Because hope comes from in you, and wishes are just magic.” - Laini Taylor

48. “consider the implications. We think we know what we want, but we can never really know until we've got it. And sometimes when we have, we discover we never really wanted it in the first place - but then it's too late” - Alexandra Potter

49. “Why only gaze at the stars? Catch one!” - Richelle E. Goodrich

50. “Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for.” - Laura Lippman

51. “The stove, she knew, wished it were a volcano, the humble teaspoons wished they were steamshovels, and the sink wished it were a well so all the others could have their wishes. Yet they all stayed exactly the same no matter what they wished, no matter what they saw and heard.” - Georgess McHargue

52. “Employing your imagination is the first step to the fulfillment of any dream.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

53. “As my mom used to say,"If wishes were horses, we'd be up to our eyeballs in shit.” - Cat Adams

54. “No matter what your wishes, they are not crazy so long as they are not crazy to you!” - Stephen Richards

55. “we wish you everything you wish yourself' Jurgen said.'What do you wish yourself?' Birgit asked.I felt silly 'I don't really have any specific wishes''a new old man perhaps?' Juliet said playfully'but please, not just any old man!' I said.'of course not just any old man! The man with whom it'll all be different.” - Eva Heller

56. “You could not be filled with hate and be beautiful. Like any other girl, I wanted to be beautiful. But I was filled with hate.” - Alice Sebold

57. “I want to see the king," I said, after explaining who I was."Wonderful," said the ancient Nkumai who sat on a cushion near the corner pole of the house. "I'm glad for you."That was all, and apparently he meant to say no more. "Why are you so glad?" I asked."Because it's good for every human being to have an unfulfilled wish. It makes all of life so poignant.” - Orson Scott Card

58. “If I had one wish, it would be for self-drying pants. Wait -- no! Unlimited wishes! How do I return these stupid pants?!” - Stephen Colbert

59. “What can a fallen star wish for, but it fulfills other's wishes, is it not?” - APORVAKALA

60. “Quiero que los poetas dejen de llamarse poetas y comiencen a llamarse sueños y que los sueños comiencen a llamarse estrellas o luciérnagas o arroyos o triciclos” - David Meza

61. “Nobody ever talks about the pyramids that weren't built, the books that weren't written, the songs that weren't sung. Stop letting your fear condemn you to mediocrity. Get out of your own way. Your dreams are a poetic reflection of your soul's wishes. Be courageous enough to follow them. There is no greater time than now to experience the full power of your potential. Make this the day you take the first step in the beautiful journey of bringing your dreams to life.” - Steve Maraboli

62. “Sincere wishes come true.” - Mehmet Murat ildan

63. “It is easier to hold on to a dream than it is to let it go.” - Tanja Kobasic

64. “But when you're in second grade, you don't yet know the meaning of impossible” - Adina Rishe Gewirtz

65. “I wished for you," he whispered, so quietly that I struggled to hear."What did that feel like? I've never made a wish in my life." My voice was as shaky as my words were stupid."Everybody wishes for something, Charli."I put just enough space between us to be able to look at him. "Not me. I've saved them all up. Birthday candles, shooting stars, stray eyelashes...ladybugs. I've saved hem all up. I figure I'm owed hundreds of wishes now.” - G.J. Walker-Smith

66. “I wish people used wishes to modify themselves instead of others. Wish to be low maintenance. Wish to be autonomous, even.” - Dan Harmon

67. “There's an intimacy in listening to somebody's lies, I've always thought--you learn more about someone from the things they wish were true than from the things that actually are.” - Jennifer Dubois