Dr Phil McGraw

All begins with you surrounding yourself with the right people—the good and authentic people—and “unsurrounding” yourself with the wrong people. And we both know there are plenty of wrong people in this world.

If I was on the air and was just kind of a plain-vanilla personality that took the safe road and the safe way trying to please all of the people all of the time, I’d been gone in two weeks.

Happiness isn’t a one-size-fits-all proposition. You must define what it looks like for you and then make a conscious effort to access whatever gets you to your unique definition of joy.

You get what you ask for in this life. If you ask for nothing, you get nothing.

Relationships are truly like a garden, if you tend it, water it, weed it and feed it, it will grow into a beautiful garden. If you only go out there every few weeks to look it over for a few moments, what do you think it’s going to look like in a few months? It’s going to be a weed patch. It will disappear.

Experts indicate that you should aim for consistent weight loss of about one to two pounds per week, so you should remain realistic—you aren’t going to lose 40 pounds per week (no matter what any diet product claims).

To me, you’ll always be the rising suns, the sinking moons, and all the stars that come between the sound of rain and river stones, the warmth of my sheets, the ache in my bones.

We are here for experience, and experience is a preparation to know the Truth when we meet it.

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.

It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.

Most choices are driven by immediate results.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

Creativity is a renewable resource. Be as creative as you like, as often as you like, because you can never run out!

I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.

To resent efficiency is a mark of inefficiency.

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

I know that god is real. I have seen him smile through the sunlight as it dances across your skin and lays gently at your feet.

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

Toe: A part of the foot used to find furniture in the dark.

A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.