Dr Phil McGraw

Don’t base a relationship on sex. You need love, compassion and caring. Then sex can be a reflection of that.

I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there’s too much guilt.

There is power in forgiveness.

When you have the right script for your life, you will always be the star of the show.

Life experiences, mental illness, drugs, greed, environment, and poor role-modeling can all forge damaged people and can generate a darkness, an exploitiveness, in the way they approach life. Whatever their genesis, there are people in your life (and mine) who will hurt you if you let them.

If you believe you deserve better, you will create better for yourself.

Love is not the absence of hate; hate will always exist. Love is holding our head high and forever moving forward with kindness and compassion in spite of what hate may bring, because no amount of darkness can drown out our light if our light has been lit within.

She wears her beauty as the sky wears the stars, infinitely deep and forever shining.

People who have nothing to hide, hide nothing. You should be an open book, be transparent.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Only when you are kinder to yourself, you can be kinder to the world.

When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that’d mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.

I’ve always thought that each person invented himself… for whatever reason, through whatever circumstance, through whatever he is gone through… that we are each a figment of our own imagination… And some people have a greater ability to imagine than others.

One side of unhealthy relating is if you are always pursuing or always retreating.

When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it’s only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it’s two hours. That’s relativity.

When we are through, we shall have reproduced American life as lived; and that, I think is the best way of preserving at least a part of our history and tradition.

I’m grateful for all the breaks and honors and opportunities I’ve had, but I always believe I won’t have it made until the humblest black kid in the most remote backwoods of America has it made.

Positive anything is better than negative thinking.

Life is not a success-only journey. You are going to get beat up along the way. And you’ve got to have the strength of character to get up and get back in the game.

Experience shows that the frequent use of severe punishment has never rendered a people better. The death of a criminal is a less effective means of restraining crimes than the permanent example of a man deprived of his liberty during the whole of his life to make amends for the injury he has done to the public.

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.