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Genes are overrated...

Genes never helped anybody pick the right foods or hit the gym floor at 6 am. Its you as a person; its always been YOU!


Dr Deepak Hiwale, aka 'The Fitness Doc'

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JOHN O'DONOHUE You are as young as you feel. If you begin to feel the warmth of your soul, there will be a youthful...
JOHN O'DONOHUE Behind your image, below your words, above your thoughts, the silence of another world waits.
JOHN O'DONOHUE You are like nobody since I love you"
-Pablo Neruda

This art of love discloses the ...
JOHN O'DONOHUE Real intimacy is a sacred experience. It never exposes its secret trust and belonging to the voyeuri...
JOHN O'DONOHUE If you try to avoid or remove the awkward quality, it will pursue you. The only effective way to sti...
JOHN O'DONOHUE The heart is the inner face of your life. The human journey strives to make this inner face beautifu...
JOHN O'DONOHUE It is lovely to meet an old person whose face is deeply lined, a face that has been deeply inhabited...
JOHN O'DONOHUE Inspiration is always a surprising visitor.
JOHN O'DONOHUE you can tell a true war story if it embarrasses you. If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care...
TIM O'BRIEN It’s a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn’t felt it, but the presence of death and dange...
TIM O'BRIEN ...his love was too much for him, he felt paralyzed, he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe...
TIM O'BRIEN But this too is true: stories can save us.
TIM O'BRIEN They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of th...
TIM O'BRIEN The wait is long, my dream of you does not end.
NUALA O'FAOLAIN There is the solitude of suffering, when you go through darkness that is lonely, intense, and terrib...
JOHN O'DONOHUE A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and com...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE I’d begun to think of the Immortality Bus as the Entropy Bus, and of ourselves as trundling across...
MARK O'CONNELL It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE When a man is one of a kind, he will be lonely wherever he is.
LOUIS L'AMOUR Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore...
EDNA O'BRIEN I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to t...
P.J. O'ROURKE And although in many cases these unions proved happy enough, sailors being excellent husbands, often...
PATRICK O'BRIAN For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biograph...
LOUIS L'AMOUR Creative scientists and saints expect revelation and do not fear it. Neither do children. But as we ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable....
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless ...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR I write to discover what I know.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I s...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR I have advice for people who want to write. I don't care whether they're 5 or 500. There are three t...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt t...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE My body is not my own any more. They have stamped their names all over it.
LOUISE O'NEILL The beauty that emerges from woundedness is a beauty infused with feeling; a beauty different from t...
JOHN O'DONOHUE Then Dad started going on about the complex geological formations in this part of the coast until Mu...
KERRIE O'CONNOR Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, who...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE I love, therefore I am vulnerable.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than w...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE I will have nothing to do with a God who cares only occasionally. I need a God who is with us always...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Having a Coke with You

is even more fun than going to San Sebastian, Irún, Hendaye, Biar...
FRANK O'HARA Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay....
FLANNERY O'CONNOR She had a vision of the two of them trapped on a tiny raft surrounded by miles of open water. It wou...
STEWART O'NAN I would not hurt you, little man,' he said.

'I think that I got the disorder in Mullingar...
FLANN O'BRIEN Fame stole my yellow. Yellow is the color you get when you're real and brutally honest. Yellow is wi...
ROSIE O'DONNELL MARRIAGE IS LIKE A BUSINESS, WHERE YOU INVEST 50/50, 30/70 OR 100%. YOU STILL HAVE TO GET INVOLVED 1...
BETA METANI' MARASHI One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and...
JEANNE D'ARC Nothing is quite so beautiful as when you share it with it with someone else. There is no purpose in...
LOUIS L'AMOUR Alone, you're vastly outnumbered; but in the company of another, by some weird miracle of human math...
CHARLES D'AMBROSIO Grace changes us and change is painful".
FLANNERY O'CONNOR The high-school English teacher will be fulfilling his responsibility if he furnishes the student a ...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is t...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR