Lida Sideris > Lida's Quotes

“People take power trips at the most inopportune times.”
― Lida Sideris, Murder and Other Unnatural Disasters

“Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in you humdrum routine, the true poetry of life - the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary person, of the plain, toilworn, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and griefs.”
― Sir William Osler

“If you are an artist, may no love of wealth or fame or admiration and no fear of blame or misunderstanding make you ever paint, with pen or brush, an ideal of external life otherwise than as you see it.”
― Olive Schreiner

“She swore she'd never turn into her P.I. father...but that was before she ran over the body.”
― Lida Sideris, Murder and Other Unnatural Disasters

“His overactive charm poured out like a lone drainage pipe after a flash flood.”
― Lida Sideris, Murder and Other Unnatural Disasters

“I measure my days by the number of homicidal thoughts I have. I only had two today. So it must have been good.”
― Lida Sideris, Murder and Other Unnatural Disasters

“He had a bushy unibrow that could house a family of quail.”
― Lida Sideris, Murder and Other Unnatural Disasters

“[His] modesty... reminded me of the trees that bend low with the burden of ripening fruits; it is the barren tree that lifts its head high in an empty boast.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

“Making others happy, through kindness of speech and sincerity of right advice, is a sign of true greatness. To hurt another soul by sarcastic words, looks, or suggestions, is despicable.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, "Where There is Light (Self-Realization Fellowship)"

“To fly away from problems may seem the easiest solution. But you gain strength only when you wrestle with a strong opponent. One who doesn’t have difficulties is one who doesn’t grow.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Where There is Light: Insight and Inspiration for Meeting Life’s Challenges