Dr Phil McGraw

If you ever get started on the right path to change, there is one important precondition you have to meet. You must rid yourself of that gnawing and overpowering sense of urgency and panic that always seems to appear on the scene.

Drama and crisis are currency to them because they love the power to make people react. They thrive on a good fight, a good scandal, a good drama.

Power begins with having a crystal-clear view of reality and what each and every person in your life is driven by.

You either get it or you don’t. Become one of those who get it.

As parents we’re not nearly as computer literate as our children are.

Don’t wait until you’re in a crisis to come up with a crisis plan.

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

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

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.

Flawed and (still) worthy.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

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

Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.

Grief is a process to go through, not a destination in which to wallow. In a process, you keep putting one foot in front of the other, and each little step is part of your healing.

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

Feelings are often born from the matrix of conditions beyond your control. Let them just pass through, like a cloud in the sky.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.

Instinct is probably the essence of past experience and knowledge stored up for later use. There are many, you know, who think that this life journey through the world is not the first one we have made. Haven’t you ever come across children who knew things that it was impossible for them to have learned? Have you ever gone to a place for the first time and felt sure that you had been there before? That’s one of the reasons I do not travel much.