Dr Phil McGraw

Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they’ll feel confused and lost.

A year from now, you’re gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now.

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

Well, let me tell you, if you’re 45, had three children and are post-menopausal, you’re not going to weigh what you did the day you graduated from high school. Get that out of your head. That’s a media-driven ideal that you’re never going to healthfully obtain.

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

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’.

Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all that’s going on right now in a big way.

If what you’re doing isn’t working, change it.

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.

I believe in 100% Theory and 100% Practice. Theory without practical application is futile.

Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Be your authentic self. Your authentic self is who you are when you have no fear of judgment, or before the world starts pushing you around and telling you who you’re supposed to be. Your fictional self is who you are when you have a social mask on to please everyone else. Give yourself permission to be your authentic self.

The number one need in all people is the need for acceptance, the need to experience a sense of belonging to something and someone. The need for acceptance is more powerful in your family than anywhere else…. If that need is not met by your family, trust me, your kids will go elsewhere to seek it in order to find approval and acceptance.

People have the right to think and say whatever they want to. But you have the right not to take it to heart, and not to react.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

The menu is not the meal.

The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.

The world’s crazy, when it comes to beauty.

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn’t correct. We all start with all there is, it’s how we use it that makes things possible.

I think; therefore I am.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.