“I can't abide people who go soft over animals and then cheat every human they come across" 

 -Diana Wynne Jones

Lover you should've come over

Jeff Buckley

'Twas my birthday yesterday :3

I wonder when they'll realise people just don't like human/social interaction. 

Goodbye to love

The Carpenters

I'll say goodbye to love

No one ever cared if I should live or die

Time and time again the chance for love

has passed me by

And all I know of love

is how to live without it

I just can't seem to find it.

So I've made my mind up I must live

my life alone

And though it's not the easy way

I guess I've always known

I'd say goodbye to love.

There are no tomorrows for this heart of mine

Surely time will lose these bitter memories

And I'll find that there is someone to believe in

And to live for something I could live for.

All the years of useless search

Have finally reached an end

Loneliness and empty days will be my

only friend

From this day love is forgotten

I'll go on as best I can.

What lies in the future

is a mystery to us all

No one can predict the wheel of fortune

as it falls

There may come a time when I will see that

I've been wrong

But for now this is my song.

And it's goodbye to love

I'll say goodbye to love.

Die Puhdys

Geh zu ihr

I love this song! :-)

Willst du dein Herz mir schenken...

Willst du dein Herz mir schenken,

so fang' es heimlich an,

dass unser Beider Denken

Niemand erraten kann.

Die Liebe muss bei Beiden

allzeit verschwiegen sein,

drum schliess' die grössten Freuden

in deinem Herzen ein.

Behutsam sei und schweige,

und traue keiner Wand,

lieb' innerlich und zeige

dich aussen unbekannt.

Kein Argwohn musst du geben,

Verstellung nöthig ist,

genug, dass du, mein Leben,

der Treu' versichert bist.

Begehre keine Blicke

von meiner Liebe nicht,

der Neid hat viele Stricke

auf unser Thun gericht.

Du musst die Brust verschliessen,

halt' deine Neigung ein,

die Lust, die wir gemessen,

muß ein Geheimniss sein.

Zu frei sein, sich ergehen,

hat oft Gefahr gebracht,

man muss sich wohl verstehen,

weil ein falsch Auge wacht.

Du musst den Spruch bedenken,

den ich zuvor gethan:

willst du dein Herz mir schenken,

so fang´ es heimlich an.

-Anonym

"For those unusually gifted, life is brief and old age rare. Pray that what you love has not pleased you too much!”

-Martial 

My heart is heavy, the author of one of my favourite books Mr Gabriel Gárcia Márquez is now with the angels.

 At least he will no longer suffer the burdens of this life that he so beautifully articulated in his prose. 

I thought I'd compile a list of just a few of my favourite quotes of his so if you've not read any of his books, you can share in a bit of his wit & magic. 

1) “There is always something left to love.” --  One Hundred Years of Solitude

2) “He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.” --  Love in the Time of Cholera

3) “He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.” --  Love in the Time of Cholera

4) “It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.” -- One Hundred Years of Solitude

5) “They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation.” --One Hundred Years of Solitude

6) “The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia.” -- Memories of My Melancholy Whores

7) “Be calm. God awaits you at the door.” --  Love in the Time of Cholera

8) “Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where he no longer was.” ---  Love in the Time of Cholera

9) “You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.” --  El Coronel no tiene quien le escriba

10) “Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.” -- Love in the Time of Cholera

11) “Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.” --  Love in the Time of Cholera

12) “Nothing resembles a person as much as the way he dies.” -- Love in the Time of Cholera

13) “She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.” -- Love in the Time of Cholera

14) “She had never imagined that curiosity was one of the many masks of love .” --  Love in the Time of Cholera

15) “Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses.” -- Of Love and Other Demons

16) "He who awaits much can expect little."

17) "No medicine cures what happiness cannot."

18) "Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching."

19) "It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams."

20) "No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing." 

-Love in the time of Cholera

21) "The writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which may be the human condition that most resembles levitation."

-No one writes but the colonel

22) “But if they had learned anything together, it was that wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.”

-Love in the time of cholera 

23) “Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.”

24)"Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry."

25) "All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret."

26) "Nothing in this world was more difficult than love."

27) "Just because someone does not love you as you want, it does not mean that you do not love with all his being."

And lastly one of my favourites:

"The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love."

Rest in soft, sweet peace Mr Márquez & thank you for sharing your light with the world and touching millions with your beautifully crafted prose. Only few can make hearts ache like you did, and through your work, you are immortal. 

1917-2014

❤️

:-) 

Love Is Stronger Than Death.
Think about it.
Your loved ones who have passed on--don't you still feel the same way about them?
Know they feel the exact same way about you...Here and Now.

In case you ever wondered what I look like running towards someone whilst talking...

xD

“For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, So shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.”

-Kalhil Gibran

And "If a writer is in love with you, you can never die." 

The greatest works of art are a labour of LOVE about love, or those that were once in love and the stars didn't align in their favour. Tragic, but it inspires so much beauty. 

Pain is inspiring, you can make your pain beautiful. 

My new motto for life...

:-) 

The view from up above is so much more beautiful...

Hello?
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me.
Is there anyone at home?
Come on, now,
I hear you're feeling down.
Well I can ease your pain
Get you on your feet again.
Relax.
I'll need some information first.
Just the basic facts.
Can you show me where it hurts?

There is no pain you are receding
A distant ship, smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying.
When I was a child I had a fever
My hands felt just like two balloons.
Now I've got that feeling once again
I can't explain you would not understand
This is not how I am.
I have become comfortably numb.

O.K.
Just a little pinprick.
There'll be no more aaaaaaaaah!
But you may feel a little sick.
Can you stand up?
I do believe it's working, good.
That'll keep you going through the show
Come on it's time to go.

There is no pain you are receding
A distant ship, smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying.
When I was a child
I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye.
I turned to look but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown,
The dream is gone.
I have become comfortably numb.

...

Flanders field, Oxfordshire

Yes!

 -Rupi Kaur

“Put your thoughts to sleep,
do not let them cast a shadow 
over the moon of your heart.
Let go of thinking.”

- Rumi

-face desk-

Oh, genie...

You have to be strong & fight for yourself. You can seek help, guidance, people like me will try & help & guide through mediums such as this, but I can't be stronger than your mind. We can fight but at the end of the day it's YOUR battle and you must face it, fight, be strong & have faith. Believe in victory & work for it... You'll surely win. You'll surely get or attract your hearts desires.  

It must be soley you, for I, like everyone try their damn hardest for you all to think, & live life in ways in which you will be happiest, with what you wish for must. With things like love, carefree attitude, the pursuit of dreams etc. But it doesn't mean you'll listen & do you in fact probably read, agree and think ahh I should do that BUT etc or I can't do that when you can, you can but you stop yourself & block the blessings and happiness. I can't compete with what's in your mind. I can't even try. 

It's hard for us to change but it's better to do something than nothing at all. Is the worst thing that could go wrong in a scenario better than your life now with you doing nothing, or what your life could be? It's for you to decide whether it's worth it. 

Good luck, God bless & I pray you're guided to the right decisions in life and you don't let the doubts scream louder than the hope. 

- Dalanda

“It's true that...life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards” 

- S.Kierkegaard.

...

Alone with everybody

the flesh covers the bone 
and they put a mind 
in there and 
sometimes a soul, 
and the women break 
vases against the walls 
and the men drink too 
much 
and nobody finds the 
one 
but keep 
looking 
crawling in and out 
of beds. 
flesh covers 
the bone and the 
flesh searches 
for more than 
flesh. 

there's no chance 
at all: 
we are all trapped 
by a singular 
fate. 

nobody ever finds 
the one. 

the city dumps fill 
the junkyards fill 
the madhouses fill 
the hospitals fill 
the graveyards fill 

nothing else 
fills.

-Charles Bukowski

London at DAWN...

Mmmmm...

Seems legit...

Unconditional love

"A realist doesn’t waste his time in objections and protest. A realist in the world doesn’t become disillusioned because he cannot hold the illusion that everything must be the way he desires it to be."

God said:

I love you. Yes, I love you. I love you more than you can fathom. You are, it seems, actually shy of love. You are afraid it is too much for you. You might feel there is obligation if you should realize the enormity of My love for you. You might feel you have to become a different person. No, not at all. Not a different person, absolutely not.

On the contrary, you would become more of yourself as you really are. You would shed layers of pretense and a misguided picture of yourself. You would become so simple, shorn of Earth-mandated appearance. Heretofore, We may consider your existence on Earth as only an approximation of yourself, perhaps an imitation of yourself.

You would become effortless. Tension would be gone. The True You in all your simplicity would arise. You would breathe as if for the first time. You would shed layers of fabrication, of ambition, of performance, even of excellence. Nevertheless, as you let go of all that covers you up or intrudes upon you, you would know your excellence, and your excellence may well not be what you thought it had to be.

You would arise as if from a pool. You would arise refreshed. You and Who You Are would match how you see yourself. Others would also begin to get a good idea of Who You Are rather than their impression. In your clear simplicity, you would be who you are and no fol de rol with it. The Real You would stand up, and you would stand tall, and you would be a blessing to yourself, everyone and the Universe. You would be known. Your simple humble masterful Self would shine through with no barriers to mask it. Everyone would see you, and they would see your Self Who, of course, is more than your individuality. They would see a Rose in Bloom, and they would begin to know that they are a Rose in Bloom as well.

You would be like the runner who ran faster and further than had been believed possible and broke the records. Because of you, others would also break their own limits. Permission to ascend that had never been withheld except by one’s own consciousness would now be a gift to the world and everyone in it. No holds barred. Really not so much that the rope had been raised higher but rather that there was no rope to raise. Ah, this is freedom to be Who You Really Are. No pulling you up or pulling you down. You would take yourself the way life is meant to be taken — as it comes.

You would not be stretching yourself. You would be allowing yourself to be the Magnificence I know you to be. You would begin to see. You would begin to see Creation. You, who are Creation, will create, and you will know yourself as a Creator of Wonder. You will no longer wonder about your capabilities and worth to the world. You will soar, and you will soar, not for yourself, but for the world.

You would have fewer thoughts about your individual self. Why? Because you would truly know and live Oneness. You won’t be able to not. Who, which of My children, could possibly resist living in Oneness? Who would not soar when geared to soar? Who would not take off? And who would take off and leave anyone behind? This would indeed be an army, an untrained army, ready to take over the whole world but giving the world to everyone just the way an Emperor might see the land as his and yet give it away. This would be an army of peace flying in perfect accord with everyone else. No uniforms needed.

This is the Arrival of Oneness on Earth. It has been destined, and you are fulfilling the destiny that was drawn from the birth of the Universe. So be it.

Permanent Link: http://heavenletters.org/you-would-arise-as-if-from-a-pool.html

Some advice, because looking around me, and listening, a lot of people seem to be forgetting this so I'm here to remind you, maybe we're too wrapped up in ourselves that we forget to see others and how we affect them so I'll make you a quick note for this. Please, take heed.

Please, before you do anything, or when you do anything, think about how the other person feels or would feel. It seems easy, straightforward and obvious, but you've no idea how many people fail to do this, and you mightn't even realise what you're doing.

I find that very often that when someone is making a decision for someone's 'own good' or 'betterment' they forget about how the other person will feel about this and make decisions on what they either must do or can or can't handle without even consulting them. To you it may seem as though you are simply being helpful, protective, saving a person heartache or whatever, but usually you just end up causing way more than would have been caused if you just let it be.

We should be there to catch people when they fall, not stopping them from take the risk because of fear they might not fly or wrapping them in cotton wool. We often say and do things without thinking, how would I feel if that was me? How does this look to the other person? If I was the other person what would I want? Is this fair for both of us? Do they want this? Should we discuss this? etcetera, etcetera.

In decisions- particularly ones which are supposedly for a greater good, these questions aren't thoroughly considered and they look at how it is from their own perspective but not from the other persons. They think they've considered the other person, and yes, they have, but only from their own point of view and not directly from the other persons. At the end of the day, when we make such decisions for people, it's to stop the pain, right? It's to stop them from getting hurt or from something bad happening? But it ends up that what you do to prevent it ends up being that bad, painful thing, and they end up more screwed than they would of been previously. I've seen it happen, I've experienced it myself and it's not nice, if a decision affects you, it's only fair you play a part in that decision, no?

Like they say 'the road to hell is paved with good intentions' and that is a prime example of how you try and be kind but end up being everything but that.

So, don't be horrible, don't be an arsehole, think of others, always with everything you do because you don't know how you'll affect another person. Little things make a big difference, and even if it's seriously not that major to you, you don't know if that little thing would push someone over the edge, or start a downward spiral, and actually, in my opinion, there is no 'little thing', it all counts. Particularly if that person is important to you, well, that's when the little things matter the most.

Don't make people hurt, please. As I always say, and as I'm sure you know, the world has enough pain, we don't have to add to it, we need to add to what is lacking in the world which is love. And if you've done something like this thinking it's out of love but in hindsight, what it causes is in fact not the best outcome, and not loving, then perhaps you ought to remedy the situation and restore the equilibrium, along with the other persons (and your) peace of mind and happiness.

It's never as hard or as non-straight forward as you think. We just tend to analyse things all the time and make problems that aren't actually there. My advice (part II) is, do everything that you would do if you weren't scared.

Take care of yourself, and BE KIND

Love you!

-Dalanda :o) xxxx

She'll be sleeping with the Angels tonight...

RIP Peaches...

It's so sad, she was only 25 with two children and a loving husband, my prayers go out to them... And to all tragic cases such as these that we don't know about.

People are moving on everywhere, all around us, and human life is so fragile, in an instant it's gone... we need to hold on to those that we love because we could wake up in the morning and they could be gone, inexplicably, into that deep eternal rest where although our soul lives on, that physical part of is gone forever and never coming back leaving behind and there's so many things left unsaid and so many things left undone.

Who will kiss her children goodnight?

In peace go home

Through veils of peace may you ascend
To promised planes above
Where comfort shall await you
In those summerlands of love

Although my grief is deep and raw
Although my pain is great
I know that you are still with me
I know that you will wait

For in God's time we'll meet again
Of this I am quite sure
I loved you so much on this earth
In absence even more

Alan Pemberton

“...this is what happens when you try to run from the past... It just doesn’t catch up, it overtakes … blotting out the future”

 - S. Dessen.

You were gone too soon, Kurt. 

❤️

He enjoys getting his nails done...

Hahahahaha!! :-D

“Time is very slow for those who wait...very short for those who celebrate..., but for those who love - time is eternal” 

- William Shakespeare.

Every bunny wasss Kung Fu fiiightiiing!! 

Don't let life turn you into stone, my darlings...

Feel. Breathe. Live. 

Even if it hurts. 

Life will screw you over, tear you apart and leave you gasping for air. It will also be so beautiful, so sweet with precious moments, people, places, victories. We must conquer & learn from the bad and relish the good. Think of one of the most happiest moments of your life, when you were so happy you almost cried. 

Live for more moments like that and grab on to all the opportunities that you can and be brave when life knocks you down and robs you of your joy. There's always something to be happy about, little things. 

Yeah life can be horrible, a real bitch but you've got to fight it head on because at the end of the day, you will fly and you will stumble and fall a lot but it's better to feel something than nothing at all. 

How will you appreciate the good if you've never had it bad? 

"You don't know what you've got till it's gone" and you don't know what could come unless you take a risk and just go for it. In the grand scheme of things it's all minor if a risk doesn't work out, but it's far worse if you never take that risk and spend your life wondering. 

Isn't it silly to vow never to ride a bike for fear of grazed knees before you've even tried?

As is always my message, do everything in love, from the heart and shoe gratitude for all you've been blessed with and worked for. 

I'm grateful I've been blessed with you, lovely reader. You care enough to read this and have even gotten this far... Thanks! 

I hope for the best for you and all your loved ones. I wish blessings for you that flow like water... And look around you! I bet you can find something to smile about!

Love, light & bright blessings,

Dalanda :-) xxx

Pssst... In case you couldn't find something to smile about or you didn't look, here!! ;-)

"But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love."

- Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

A broken appointment

-Thomas Hardy