Dr Phil McGraw

Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering.

Its a choice. You just have to decide that I’m not going to put my energy there. I’m going to decide to let this go. It’s your choice. You can embrace it, you can become a prisoner of bitterness and resentment anger and victim city, or you can just say ‘I’m going to live my life and be happy’.

I tell you, if you’re in the front row of the parade and you stop walking, pretty soon you’re back in the tuba section. And if you want to lead the parade you’ve got to keep moving.

First, you’re going to have to stop using food for anything other than nutrition. You cannot continue to use food to celebrate, or as a companion, or for entertainment, or comfort. You cannot medicate yourself, your mood, or pain with food.

Learn when’s a good time to shut up.

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.

A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

Do you want to be right or do you want to be happy?

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.

Smugglin’ that by me? That’s like tryin’ to smuggle sunrise past a rooster.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

You are mine, and that means I am on your side even when no one else is.

The finest clothing made is a person’s own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

Everything in life I’ve worked hard for; what makes you think I’d do you different?

Insight emerges out of silence.

From the day I arrived, California seemed like an enchanted land.

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

Imitate, assimilate and innovate.

You need to listen to your body because your body is listening to you.

Work like you don’t need the money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like nobody is watching.