The Quotes Quoted By Dr Tom From CBC’s “Being Erica”

Episode 1 “Dr. Tom”

 In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. – Albert Einstein

 Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make. – Abraham
Cowle

 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 Holt

 Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand. – Baruch Spinoza

 If life’s journey be endless where is its goal? The answer is, it

is everywhere. – Rabindranath Tagore

Episode 2 “What I Am Is What I Am”

 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
 We are the sum of our decisions, and as long as you’re happy, that’s all that matters. – Antigone Morris,
Erica’s classmate

 Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt. – Thomas Moore

Episode 3 “Plenty of Fish”

 Sarcasm: the last refuge of the modest people when the privacy of the soul is intrusively invaded. –
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
 Let your net always be cast, and in the pool which you least expect, there will be a fish. – Ovid

 There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path. – Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne in
The Matrix)

 Chasing the past, she stumbled into the future. – T.A. Sachs

Episode 4 “The Secret of Now”

 You don’t miss your water until your well runs dry. – William Bell
 While we are postponing, life speeds by. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca, 5 BC

 Defeatism is the wretchedest of policies. – George Bernard Shaw

 Oops… I did it again. – Britney Spears

 Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go–it is the fragile blossom that opens in the
snow. – Alice M. Swain
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Episode 5 “Adultescence”

 Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. – Prime Minister Winston Churchill
 No party is any fun unless seasoned with folly. – Desiderius Erasmus

 It takes a lot of courage to grow up and be who you really are. – e.e. cummings

Episode 6 “Til Death”

 The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
 There’s a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in. – Leonard Cohen

Episode 7 “Such a Perfect Day”

 You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. – Zig Ziglar
 Although the world is full of suffering it is also full of the overcoming of it. – Helen Keller

 We cannot, we will not, choose the path of surrender. – President Woodrow T. Wilson

Episode 8 “This Be the Verse”

 There is no try, only do. – Yoda

 To err is human, but to forgive is divine. – Alexander Pope (paraphrased)

 They screw you up, your mom and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. – Philip Larkin (paraphrased)

 Your parents will mess you up. They don’t mean to, but they do it anyway. – Philip Larkin ( I am unsure if
this is the way Dr Tom quotes it or if he paraphrases as above. When I rewatch this episode this portion
will be edited.)

Episode 9 “Everything She Wants”

 Labels are for cans, not people. – Anthony Rapp

Episode 10 “Mi Casa, Su Casa Loma”

 Being entirely honest with oneself is a worthwhile exercise. – Sigmund Freud (paraphrased)
 A man has two reasons for doing anything – a good reason and the real reason. – J.P. Morgan ( I also found
out that the original person who said this was Thomas Carlyle and his version is “A person usually has two
reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.”)

Episode 11 “She’s Lost Control”

 He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.. – George
Orwell (paraphrased)
 We create our fate every day we live. – Henry Miller

 There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain. – Aeschylus

The Quotes Quoted By Dr Tom From CBC’s “Being Erica”

 Men in the game are blind to what men looking on see clearly. – Chinese Proverb

Episode 12 “Erica the Vampire Slayer”

 Learn to be what you are, and learn to resign with good grace all that you are not. – Henri-Frédéric
Amiel (paraphrased)
 Thinking is easy, acting is difficult – and to put one’s thoughts into action, the most difficult thing in the
world. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Episode 13 “Leo”

~ No Dr Tom Quotes ~

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Episode 1 “Being Dr. Tom”

 (Said by Dr Naadiah to Dr Tom) Fear is the mind-killer. – Frank Herbert

 I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but I always end up where I need to be. – Douglas Adams

 (Said by Erica to a young Dr Tom before he became Dr Tom) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity –
Albert Einstein

 When the student is ready the teacher will appear. – Buddhist Proverb

 For everything there is a season and a time. – Ecclesiastes 3:1

Episode 2 “Battle Royale”

 The course of true love never did run smooth – William Shakespeare
 Returning violence with violence only multiplies violence – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Episode 3 “Mama Mia”

 Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it. – Marshall McLuhan

 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

Episode 4 “Cultural Revolution”

 It doesn’t work to leap a twenty-foot chasm in two ten-foot jumps. – American Proverb

Episode 5 “Yes We Can”

 Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. – Albert Camus
 To succeed in life you need two things: ignorance and confidence. – Mark Twain

 Everything has a consequence. Every action has a reaction. – Isaac Newton (paraphrased)
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Episode 6 “Shhh… Don’t Tell”

 There is no shame in not knowing. The shame lies in not finding out. – Russian Proverb

Episode 7 “The Unkindest Cut”

~ No Dr Tom Quotes ~

Episode 8 “Under My Thumb”

 (Said by Dr Fred to Dr Tom) Familiarity breeds contempt. – Aesop

Episode 9 “A River Runs Through It…It Being Egypt”

 All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered. The point is, to discover them. – Galileo Galilei
 Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t going away. – Elvis Presley

 The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is. –
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill

Episode 10 “Papa Can You Hear Me?”

 Act the way you want to be and soon you’ll be the way you act. – Bob Dylan

Episode 11 “What Goes Up Must Come Down”

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable. – Coco Chanel

 (Julianne Giacomelli to Erica) When the Lord closes a door he opens a window. – Mother Superior in “The
Sound of Music”

Episode 12 “The Importance of Being Erica”

 Every wall is a door. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

 One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire Cat. “Which road do I take?,” she asked.
“Where do you want to go?,” was his response. “I don’t know,” answered Alice. “Then,” said the cat, “it
doesn’t matter.” – ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ by Lewis Carroll

 (Erica to Kai Booker) This above all, to thine own self be true. – William Shakespeare

 We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves. – Galileo Galilei

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Episode 1 “The Rabbit Hole”

 Pressure makes diamonds. – General George S. Patton (Second time it has been said in the series)
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Episode 2 “Moving On Up”

 Learning is finding out what you already know. – Richard Bach

Episode 3 “Two Wrongs”

 An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. – Gandhi

 Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Episode 4 “Wash, Rinse, Repeat”

 Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. – The
Buddha aka Siddhartha Gautama

Episode 5 “Being Adam”

 It is our imagination that transforms itself into reality. – Helen Araromi

Episode 6 “Bear Breasts”

 Running away will never make you free. – Kenny Logins

 The id lives in our subconscious, it is the force that drives our most primitive impulses. – Sigmund Freud
“The Ego and the Id.” (Out of a book and I assume that’s what it was called. Not an off the cuff quote as
Dr. Tom usually does.)

Episode 7 “Jenny from the Block”

 And I saw Sisyphus, seeking to raise a monstrous stone with both his hands. Verily, he would thrust the
stone toward the crest of a hill but the weight would turn it back. And then down again to plain would
come rolling, the ruthless stone. – Homer, “Odyssey” Book 11 Line 593. However, this is a misquote by Dr
Tom based on the quotes I found of the book online.

Episode 8 “Physician, Heal Thyself”

 Whatever your past has been, you have a spotless future. – Melanie Gustafson

Episode 9 “Gettin’ Wiggy Wit’ It”

 What is hateful to thyself do not do to another. – Hillel

 (By Dr. Arthur, I am not sure why I even included it.) The Universe has a way of righting itself. – Tom ‘Dr.
Tom’ Wexler paraphrased

Episode 10 “The Tribe Has Spoken”

 But the eyes are blind, one must look with the heart. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Episode 11 “Adam’s Family”

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~ No Dr Tom Quotes ~

Episode 12 “Erica, Interrupted”

 In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. – A Tom ‘Dr. Tom’ Wexler quote quoted by Erica to Leo.
Originally said by Albert Einstein and quoted by Dr Tom to Erica in Season 1 Episode 1.

~ No Dr Tom Quotes ~

Episode 13 “Fa La Erica”

 Christmas is a time when you get homesick, even when you’re home. – Carol Nelson
 The Family is the Country of the heart. – Giuseppe Mazzini

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Episode 1 “Doctor Who?”

Patient: Josh McIntosh

 Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for greater responsibilities. – Napoleon Hill
 Life is too short to blend in. – Paris Hilton

Episode 2 “Osso Barko”

Patient: Julianne Giacomelli

 Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. – Sigmund Freud
 With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere. – C.S. Lewis

Episode 3 “Baby Mama”

Patient: Barbara ‘Barb’ Strange

 Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. – Charlotte Brontë

Episode 4 “Born This Way”

Patient: Brent Kennedy

 When the lord closes a door, somewhere he opens a window. – Mother Superior (by Julianne)

Episode 5 “Sins Of The Father”

Patient: Dr Tom being treated by Dr Naadiah

 The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work. – Ralph Waldo Emerson (by Dr Tom’s
father to Dr Tom)
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 Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. – Aristotle

Episode 6 “If I Could Turn Back Time”

Patient: None.

 What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly. – Thomas Payne

 With great power comes great responsibility. – Spiderman (Ben ‘Uncle Ben’ Parker, but they don’t
reference him specifically.)

 We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without
producing it. – George Bernard Shaw

 We learn by doing, there is no other way. – John Holt. This is a quote Dr Tom has used before but he
didn’t bother to say who it was by this time.

Episode 7 “Being Ethan”

Patient: Ethan

 Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. – Oscar Wilde

Episode 8 “Please, Please Tell Me Now”

Patient: Erica by Dr Tom & Dr Tom by Dr Naadiah

~ No Dr Tom Quotes ~

Episode 9 “Erica’s Adventures in Wonderland”

Patient: Erica

 Fall in love for all the right reasons. – eHarmony

 We come to love not by finding the perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. –
Sam Keen

 Live long and prosper. – Quoted by Dr Tom dressed as Mr Spock even though he doesn’t actually attribute
it he is dressed as Mr Spock complete with prosthetic ears.

Episode 10 “Purim”

Patient: Erica’s Grandfather

~ No Dr Tom Quotes ~
Episode 11 “Dr. Erica”
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Patient: Erica & later her first full patient. Spoiler Alert in these brackets is the name of the first patient.
Because some of you might not have seen the episode yet, you have to highlight the name by selecting it with
your mouse. (Sarah Wexler)

 There is no constant but change. – Heraclitus (Erica says it to Dr Naadiah but doesn’t attribute it.)
 Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well. – The Buddha

 In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. – Albert Einstein (Erica to her first patient.)