Dr Phil McGraw

My dad used to say, ‘You wouldn’t worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.

This is your life and the clock is ticking.

You need to face the pain and the fear and walk through the Grief.

If somebody put a loaded gun to my head & said call your wife the “c” word, i would just tell them to shoot cause it s a quicker death!

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.

Never put more in a relationship than you can afford to lose.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won’t, either.

Life has two rules: 1. Never quite 2. Always remember 1.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

How beautiful the world was when one looked at it without searching, just looked, simply and innocently.

This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

I am what I am Are you what you are or What?

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

Every success is the mother of countless others.

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

How many legs does a dog have, if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.