Thought of the day.

If you are in an impossible situation.

Then find an impossible solution.

And do it!


Gary Edward Gedall

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I begin by imagining
The impossible
And end by accomplishing
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If, after ...
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My cup is yellow
Or not, though not's

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This is a day of celebration!
Today, we are divorcing the past
and marrying the present. KAMAND KOJOURI
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Spir...
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you have to consult n...
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Let’s consider your age to begin with — how old are you?’

‘I’m seven and a half...
LEWIS CARROLL
It is nearly impossible.'
'Nearly impossible and impossible are not the same thing.
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He was footprints in the snow.

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Some are meant to gr...
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Poetry is an act of love.
Without love life is impossible.
Without poetry love has no ex...
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Why it's simply impassible!
Alice: Why, don't you mean impossible?
Door: No, I do mean imp...
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But what are kings, when regiment is gone,
But perfect shadows in a sunshine day?

- ...
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you are a horse running alone
and he tries to tame you
compares you to an impossible highw...
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1. If you don’t believe the impossi...
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You’re dangerous,” he says.
“Why?”
“Because you make me believe in the impossibl...
SIMONE ELKELES
in the afterglow
of an evening rain

i lay down
in the grass
and think of ...
SANOBER KHAN
I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there ’s a pair of us—don’t tel...
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For I dance
And drink and sing,
Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing.

If t...
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Impossible is my specialty."

-Marissa Meyer, Heartless
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To know the way,
we go the way,
we do the way.
The way we do,
the things we do...
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Forgive them anyway.

I...
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An angel for some,
a demon for some,
for me, it’s heart of the one.
Never want to h...
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Gestalt Prayer
I do my thing and you do yours.
I am not in this world to live up to...
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LIKE OTHER BILLION,
HAPPY REPUBLIC DAY,
HOPE TO FIND A GOOD WAY,
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we met one strange summer

in a regular tangle of sticky webs

you had the air o...
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I got an A on the third quiz in American history,
an A,
dammit.
Last time I got a ...
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COMING FORTH INTO THE LIGHT

I was born the day
I thought:
What is?
What wa...
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And there you are
on the shore,

fitful and thoughtful, trying
to attach them ...
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You know the phrase ‘hard to get’?” K.T. asks.

“Yeah.”

“Forget har...
ERICA CAMERON
What does ‘hmm’ have to do with anything? Could you ever use more than five words? All this grun...
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See
it was like this when
we waltz into this place.
A couple of papish cats
i...
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i find you
in every echo,
i find you in every
dream, i find you
in every feeling...
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What We Want

What we want
is never simple.
We move among the things
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Every time you try and fail,
Every time your hope gets stuck in the deeps,
And you wonder ...
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I hope one day
somebody loves you
so much
that they see violets
in the bags unde...
TRISTA MATEER
How can you be a lover of love
and not be a lover of God?
It is impossible.
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REFLECTIONS OF TRUTH

Where you find Truth
Is where you find your reflection
And...
SUZY KASSEM
And what's care?
What's coldness?
Why you are so foolish of your freedom?

... DEYTH BANGER
who are you
really?

you are not a name
or a height, or a weight
or a gende...
M.K
Was that me? Yes it was. Was that him? No it wasn't..
Just a trick of the woods!
Just ...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM


May you find serenity and tranquility
in a worl...
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Stop a minute and listen. I know I'm asking the impossible from you, but for once in your life, shut...
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If You Forget Me

I want you to know
one thing.

You know how this is:
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Little Fly
Thy summers play,
My thoughtless hand
Has brush'd away.

Am not ...
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It's not easy, but do it anyway

It's not easy to love,
when you get resentment in re...
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It's not easy, but do it anyway

It's not easy to love,
when you get resentment in re...
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The more you love
the more you'll find
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and friends are kind
and on...
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You blast me open and then
You stand back and watch
My feeble attempts
To deal wit...
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What if you slept
And what if
In your sleep
You dreamed
And what if
In...
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Why is my love for you, dyed in wool?
What is the hindrance to moving on?

Why in lov...
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For fractured souls are like magnets.
Drawn to collide into an impossible bliss.....
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Wake up.
If your eyes are sleeping
then wipe them gently.
You need to be awake for...
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No Goodbye'

The floods of tears,
Flow for thee,
As I remember how it used to be...
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If today is not your day,
then be happy
for this day shall never return.
And if to...
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-It is a malady.
--Love?
-An Illusion.
--Religion?
-The fashio...
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It’s impossible,” he snapped.

“Why?”

“Because I’m Sebastian, Lor...
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It was a completely different time for me. Now, the children





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It ends or it doesn't.
That’s what you say. That’s
how you get through it.
The tu...
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Conversation of the Day -

He: How do you describe yourself in two words?

Me: Y...
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DON'T SAY, DO


Do not say things
You think I want to hear.
Instead,
S...
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Please be SILENT and LISTEN.
I am the SCHOOLMASTER
and you are in the CLASSROOM.
Just...
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Every spring
I hear the thrush singing
in the glowing woods
he is only passing throug...
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BLESSINGS ARE IMMEASURABLE


You can
Lose a child
Or a parent,
The lov...
SUZY KASSEM
-Do you want me to leave?
-Yes
-Do you want me to stay?
-Yes
-Do you love me? MALAK EL HALABI
He was heartbroken, I say.

Heartbroken, he repeats. Of course. That's the great myth Edwa...
J.P. DELANEY
(Divorce)
We’ll remarry someday when we’ve grown,
Like royalty who’ve earned the th...
CRYSTAL WOODS
If you see it's impossible,
you may use others' eyes.
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YOUR GREATER ANIMAL


They say that if you are
Ever confronted by
A lion or...
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The Mustard Seed Charm

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All this waiting.
Waiting for the rain to
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Waiting for the...
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You start dying slowly
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if you do not read,
If you do not lis...
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Never say I love you
If you really don't care.

Never talk about feelings
If they...
ANON.
(You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel as...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER
The word "impossible" is only in the mind
And not in the heart.
If we can remain in the he...
SRI CHINMOY
Do you remember how the sun, set
On the occasion, we last conversed?

First, it hid b...
ZUBAIR AHSAN
If you don't know the effect of
words, you are behind times.If
you want positivity, spea...
VAL UCHENDU
You promised, Seaweed Brain. We would not get separated! Ever again!'
'You are impossibl...
RICK RIORDAN
Let us go then, you and I,

When the evening is spread out against the sky

Like...
JOHN GREEN
People always ask me
"Son what does it take
To reach out and touch your dreams?"
To t...
TIM MCGRAW
during my worst times
on the park benches
in the jails
or living with
whores
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
On building homes for fallen angels:

When I was small - I sought a home,
a place to ...
WILL ADVISE
That time
I thought I could not
go any closer to grief
without dying

I wen...
MARY OLIVER
DADDY

You do not do, you do not do
Any more, black shoe
In which I have lived l...
SYLVIA PLATH
as long as there are
human beings about
there is never going to be
any peace
for...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
This is your world
You’re the creator
Find freedom on this canvas
Believe, that you...
BOB ROSS
I ask the impossible: love me forever.
Love me when all desire is gone.
Love me with the s...
ANA CASTILLO
I thought you told me you loved stories Have you ever heard a story of an adventurer with a sane pla...
SABAA TAHIR
People are not an interruption of our business. People are our business.
A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in men. Ordinary people see no diff...
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Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga -- stylized because even the most acute of the...
EDWARD HOAGLAND
Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intr...
EDWARD HOAGLAND
There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
EDWARD DAHLBERG
The worst of all diseases is a nervous ability.
EDWARD DYSON
Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precis...
EDWARD DAHLBERG
When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the u...
EDWARD TELLER
Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.
EDWARD EDWARDS
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
EDWARD GIBBON
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
EDWARD GIBBON
Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have b...
EDWARD DAHLBERG
To write is a humiliation.
EDWARD DAHLBERG
What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of acciden...
EDWARD DAHLBERG
Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
EDWARD DAHLBERG
The work was like peeling an onion. The outer skin came off with difficulty... but in no time you'd ...
EDWARD BLISHEN
By night an atheist half believes in God.
EDWARD YOUNG
You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag.
EDWARD KOCH
Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine h...
EDWARD DAHLBERG
Our birth is nothing but our death begun.
EDWARD YOUNG
If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think po...
EDWARD RICKENBACKER
Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders...
EDWARD HOAGLAND
You know...that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum -- a canvas -- a ...
EDWARD STEICHEN
I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.
EDWARD DAHLBERG
We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.
EDWARD GIBBON
Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manife...
EDWARD HOAGLAND
There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of ...
EDWARD HOAGLAND
Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of ...
EDWARD DAHLBERG
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
EDWARD EVERETT
Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half an emptiness dressed up in garments borr...
EDWARD BLISHEN
I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes.
EDWARD GIBBON
What most men desire is a virgin who is a whore.
EDWARD DAHLBERG
Every decision you make is a mistake.
EDWARD DAHLBERG
The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the sub...
EDWARD GIBBON
Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is...
EDWARD DAHLBERG
It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, a...
EDWARD DAHLBERG
Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspire...
EDWARD DAHLBERG
Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enig...
EDWARD DAHLBERG
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
EDWARD DOWDEN
The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing it exactly right.
EDWARD SIMMONS
The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.
EDWARD GIBBON
If we would just support each other -- that's ninety percent of the problem.
EDWARD GARDNER
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
EDWARD GIBBON