Desikachar Quotes & Sayings

The light will and can never be smothered in darkness. — K. Weikel

The ultimate goal of yoga is to always observe things accurately, and therefore never act in a way that will make us regret our actions later. — T. K. V. Desikachar

Poetry, the best of it, is lunar and is concerned with the essential insanities. Journalism is solar (there are numerous newspapers named The Sun, none called The Moon) and is devoted to the inessential. — Tom Robbins

The quality of our breath expresses our inner feelings. — T. K. V. Desikachar

If you compromise in the first five, ten hires it might kill the company. — Sam Altman

Literature gives me life, and life kills me. Well, life kills everyone. — Rabih Alameddine

Indecision is fatal. It is better to make a wrong decision than build up a habit of indecision. If you're wallowing in indecision, you certainty can't act - and action is the basis of success — Marie Beynon Lyons Ray

Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Mastery of yoga is really measured by how it influences our day-to-day living, how it enhances our relationships, how it promotes clarity and peace of mind. — T. K. V. Desikachar

When looking back on the lives of men and women of God, the tendency is to say, "What wonderfully keen and intelligent wisdom they had, and how perfectly they understood all that God wanted!" But the keen and intelligent mind behind them was the mind of God, not human wisdom at all. We give credit to human wisdom when we should give credit to the divine guidance of God being exhibited through childlike people who were "foolish" enough to trust God's wisdom and His supernatural equipment. — Oswald Chambers

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. — T. K. V. Desikachar

Anybody can breathe. Therefore anybody can practice yoga. — T. K. V. Desikachar