Voice-Overs

Some of my favorite shows involve voice-overs.  Sometimes I wish my life had a narrator, to  bring the lessons I learned come full circle from a simple quote.  One of my favorite shows with a voice-over is not in fact Sex and the City, although I will say I did love a lot of those episodes.

My favorite voice-over show and all around show for great quotes is a little known Canadian show called Being Erica.  Her life is a mess but her therapist, Dr. Tom, always sheds light on the situation with a great quote.  Voice-overs and quotes are great because they give a kind of perspective that you might not have seen, if only real life was like that.

Here are some of my favorite Dr. Tom quotes, I hope you find them as inspiring as I do.

"Labels are for cans, not people." Anthony Rapp.

They say love is friendship set on fire. And if you're lucky enough to find someone you can give yourself to, mind, body and soul, you should hold on, and hope like hell you don't get burned.

"There is no try, only do.”  Yoda

"You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses." Zig Ziglar

"There's a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in." Leonard Cohen.

If life's journey be endless where is its goal? The answer is, it is everywhere.  (Rabindranath Tagore)

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.  (Baruch Spinoza)

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. (Albert Einstein)

Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make. (Abraham Lincoln)

Pressure makes diamonds. (General George S. Patton)

The life which is unexamined is not worth living. (Plato)

We learn to do something by doing it. There is no other way. (John Halt)

Those that fail to learn from the past are doomed to repeat it. (Winston Churchill)

No party is fun, unless seasoned with folly. (Desiderius Erasmus)

Learn to be what you are, and learn to resign with good grace all that you are not. (Henry Frederick Emile)

It takes a lot of courage to grow up and be who you really are. (EE Cummings)

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. (Anne Morrow Lindbergh)

Your parents will mess you up. They don't mean to, but they do it anyway. (Philip Larkin)

"The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how
things may be, to see them as they are." Samuel Johnson

"Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you acted." (Bob Dylan)

"The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart."

Albert Camus

"Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable."

Coco Chanel

"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is."

Winston Churchill

"All truths are easier to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them."

Galileo Galilei

"There is no shame in not knowing. The shame lies in not finding out."

Russian Proverb

"Did you know that talking as a means of resolving conflict actually goes against every biological instinct that we have? You know, we feel threatened and so we fight. Or if we don’t have the stomach for that, we run."

Dr. Tom

"Returning violence with violence only multiplies violence."

Martin Luther King

"The course of true love never did run smooth."

William Shakespeare

"Every action has a reaction."

Isaac Newton

"To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence."

Mark Twain

"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."

Albert Camus

"Chasing the past, she stumbled into the future."

T.A. Sachs

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one’."

C.S. Lewis