Your Primary Mood Color is Blue
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Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life. But of course, like autumn, it doesn't last.

- C.S. Lewis, "Letters of C. S. Lewis [1966] "27 October 1963""

Not the one I made yesterday, but still yummy. If you like poppyseed, that is. :)

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We all start out with the same alphabet. We are all unique. Talent is not the most important thing --- discipline and dedication are. Craft can be learned but desire and longing are innate. Despite the demands of school and just being young, try to write SOMETHING every day --- a description, a captured emotion, a simile, a metaphor. Read, for ( Read more... )

You Are Realistic Fiction
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Health Care...equal for all...

Quality health care is a basic human right.
No one should die because they cannot afford health care, and no one should go broke because they get sick.

If you agree with this, post it on your LJ.

(from beautiful_hooch's LJ)

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

- Thomas Merton

Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive.

- Albert Schweitzer

Every house where love abides
And friendship is a guest,
Is surely home, and home, sweet home
For there the heart can rest.

- Henry Van Dyke

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.  Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."

- Helen Keller