Tirumalai Krishnamacharya Venkata Desikachar Quotes
The success of Yoga does not lie in the ability to perform postures but in how it positively changes the way we live our life and our relationships.
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I feel like I want to and have to do everything once.
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I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people.
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If the day comes where I can have my own action figure... I defy any actor to say that's not a good day.
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My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
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It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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Both my parents are immigrants. I've seen different struggles they've had. There's a reason you don't see me using accents. I don't do impressions of my folks. When I'm doing a crappy impression of my folks, and you're laughing, I'm thinking, 'When my parents talk to people, when they walk away do people do impressions of them? Do they laugh?'
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It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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That's what I've wanted to do my whole life, just act. When I was younger, I loved to entertain people. I always used to make up dance routines, do little plays. I love to perform, basically.
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I take my work seriously, but I don't necessarily take myself seriously.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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My parents deeply and truly loved each other, and if my mother hadn't died they would have been together forever. They were together for as much of forever as was given to them. They really loved my brother and me and were very good to us. It gave the model of how to have a happy marriage and family, but it also set the bar very high.
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I don't do guilt. Whatever I do, I do it happily.
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I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn't know what else to do about it except write about it.
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I think it's the nervousness and the worry that it won't last forever that keeps us working so hard.
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The success of Yoga does not lie in the ability to perform postures but in how it positively changes the way we live our life and our relationships.
