Dr Phil McGraw

If emotional pain or problems have cropped up in your life, you must insist on getting closure. Closure means you don’t carry the problem or the pain. You address the issue, then you slam shut the book and put it away.

When I was practicing psychology, I used to tell myself if I ever get to where I’m just doing this for the money or I’m just going through the motions, I’ll quit.

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.

I do not believe, even remotely, that you have to have a partner in your life in order to be whole, in order to be complete, in order to be fulfilled. You just don’t have to.

This is your life and the clock is ticking.

Obesity has overtaken cancer as the No. 1 cause of avoidable, preventable death in American society. It’s an epidemic-level problem.

Never turn your back on enthusiasm.

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures.

I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.

The only thing you can give a man without hurting him is an opportunity.

Don’t say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.

I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

I mean, if you degrade someone, you isolate them, you control them, you call them names, you demean them. That’s a horrible existence for people.

Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.

I can’t change history, I don’t want to change history. I can only change the future. I’m working on that.

This is no dress rehearsal.

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

No matter how carefully and assiduously and how deeply you bury shit, the American public will find it and buy it in large quantity, It’s true, absolutely true.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.