Dr Phil McGraw

You know, what we do know is that there is a high frequency of violence in the home of those who bully.

At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you’re living your life doesn’t matter. What matters is whether you’re comfortable with it.

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’.

These are our neighbours, our co-workers, friends’ children… the problem is closer than you think, but so is the solution.

Leaders inspire. They aren’t assigned leadership. They command it.

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

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

You are your own most important resource for making your life work. Life rewards action. Until your knowledge, awareness, insights, and understandings are translated into action, they are of no value.

Everything intelligent is so boring.

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism — how passionately I hate them!

If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?

Trouble with the world today is people don’t go to children enough. I don’t like old people. I stay away from them.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

Like an enemy I knew as intimately as any friend, I came to know the nagging, constant emptiness of the incongruent life. I ignored myself and lived for people, purposes, and goals that weren’t my own. I betrayed who I was and instead accepted a fictional substitute that was defined from the outside in.

Scriptures, n.: The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.