Dr Phil McGraw

There’s a big difference between falling in love and being in love. There’s a big difference between infatuation and falling in love.

Loving smart means believing in you, your worth and your value.

There is no reality, only perception.

You have to figure out what that is, and you have to make a plan to get to it. And the plan has got to have a timeline. You have to choose something that you can afford to do and then lock it in and passionately do it.

We teach people how to treat us.

Experts indicate that you should aim for consistent weight loss of about one to two pounds per week, so you should remain realistic—you aren’t going to lose 40 pounds per week (no matter what any diet product claims).

Sometimes if you’re lucky, someone comes into your life who’ll take up a place in your heart that no one else can fill, someone who’s tighter than a twin, more with you than your own shadow, who gets deeper under your skin than your own blood and bones

She was not for everyone, but she was for me.

The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one’s relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident.

When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy-that it is builded upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

You can repeat the mistakes of your parents’ marriage or you can go out of your way not to repeat them.

No one is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow.

A lot of people believe what other people say.

The only other person who has a clue about what this is, the good, the bad, is your partner.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll be happy. If you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher… and that is a good thing for any man.

All happy families are alike, but an unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion.

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.

Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?

I think when you get married, it’s not a totally free ride – it’s not without its unglamorous periods and its fights and its angry noons and silent dawns or vice-versa.