Dr Phil McGraw

Like an enemy I knew as intimately as any friend, I came to know the nagging, constant emptiness of the incongruent life. I ignored myself and lived for people, purposes, and goals that weren’t my own. I betrayed who I was and instead accepted a fictional substitute that was defined from the outside in.

You are so much more than what people have done to you, and to let that define you, would be a tragedy.

Anger is nothing more than an outward expression of hurt, fear and frustration.

Drama and crisis are currency to them because they love the power to make people react. They thrive on a good fight, a good scandal, a good drama.

Life is a marathon, it’s not a sprint.

As parents we’re not nearly as computer literate as our children are.

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

I am not prejudiced in any way.

Improvements have been coming so quickly that the past is being lost to the rising generation, and it can be preserved only by putting it in a form where it may be seen and felt. That is the reason behind this collection.

Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.

I’m doing it because I choose it. And if it’s not working, I can make a change.

I don’t know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.

I am one of the people who love the why of things.

I ask you to go back and read them over again, and this time answer “Self-acceptance was the foundation of the happiest time in your life and it was the engine that powered the train.

Are people more violently opposed to fur rather than leather because its much easier to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs?

You have to name it to claim it.

I know the sun rises in the eat and sets in the west, that I am ten fingers and ten toes and ten thousand reasons short of explaining what it is I can’t explain to you. And I know that I will always love you in certainties.

A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man’s heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.

Insight emerges out of silence.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

Sometimes, the only way to discover who you are or what life you should lead is to do less planning and more living…