A clever one-liner to add to your New Year’s card! A collection of message ideas that leave a lasting impression

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Graduated from Kunitachi College of Music, Faculty of Music (now: Department of Music Culture and Education, Early Childhood Music Education major). In elementary school, my homeroom teacher was Jun Kusaba, a game researcher. After graduating from university, I worked as a kindergarten teacher for 10 years and as an after-school childcare instructor for 7 years, then took a position as a music teacher at an international school in Singapore. In addition to music education, I engaged in activities that introduced Japanese culture, traditional games, and recreational activities, working with many children. Later, through freelance writing, planning, and editing at Shogakukan, I met many delightful adults and experienced the joy of communicating and sharing. Drawing on the perspective cultivated in the field of education and my experience as an editor, I provide practical information with an emphasis on both input and output, mainly in areas related to music and children. My hobbies include instruments, singing, handicrafts, toys, drawing, traditional games, the outdoors, and books. My special skill is spinning-top tricks.

When writing New Year’s cards, many of us find ourselves wondering, “What brief message should I add this year?” The usual stock phrases can feel a bit lacking, but we also want to avoid sounding too stiff.

If you can add a thoughtful line that suits your relationship and recent circumstances, it will warm the recipient’s heart.

Here, we introduce plenty of ideas for short messages you can use in New Year’s cards.

Send heartfelt words to those who matter to you and make it a lovely greeting to start the new year!

A Clever Line to Add to Your New Year’s Cards! A Collection of Memorable Message Ideas (61–70)

Kick off the new year with a smile!

It’s a lovely message that brings to mind someone dashing across the finish line with a smile.

It’s filled with great expectations for the new year and conveys a sense of excitement that can hardly wait.

Some people look forward to the New Year, and some don’t, but when a bright message like this arrives on a New Year’s card, it naturally brings a smile, doesn’t it? For students preparing for entrance exams, the phrase “starting dash” might spark the motivation to push hard now and pull ahead.

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Wishing you a year full of smiles.

It’s a short phrase themed around smiles, which can be called a symbol of happiness.

A smile never fading—in other words, happiness never fading.

Life has its ups and downs, and it’s not easy to find yourself in an environment where you can truly smile.

That’s precisely why, like the New Year, we want to send this phrase with our wishes.

Let’s deliver this message so that people first become mindful of smiling, and in doing so, draw happiness to themselves.

And don’t forget to share your own smile, too!

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May it be a fulfilling year for both of us.

So that we can say at year’s end that it was a good year, we all want to spend fulfilling days again this year.

Will you throw yourself into your work, savor your hobbies, or make lots of memories with your family? Fulfillment looks different for everyone, but it’s always filled with plenty of joyful moments.

Why not add this short message to your New Year’s card, wishing for days that make the year feel short because they’re so rich? Since it says “for both of us,” make sure you, too, don’t fall behind—have a wonderful year yourself.

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May your days be filled with joy and abundance of heart.

For one’s heart to be rich, it needs to be fulfilled.

In other words, this simple phrase conveys a wish for the coming year to be satisfying, while also expressing hopes for the recipient’s physical and mental well-being and a calm living environment as the foundation.

It’s a simple expression, but the wish behind it is profound and warmly heartfelt.

Why not write this phrase in your New Year’s card as you wish joyful days for a close friend or someone you often talk with? Your feelings of care will surely reach them.

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In conclusion

Adding a thoughtful line to a New Year’s card brings hearts much closer.

Along with a seasonal greeting, if you include warm words that show you’re thinking of the recipient and a bit about how you’ve been, you can almost see the smile on their face.

I hope that a heartfelt New Year’s card arriving at the start of the year will be a chance to deepen wonderful connections.