Dr Phil McGraw

Sometimes you’ve just gotta give yourself what you wish you were getting from someone else.

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.

Every situation needs a hero. Step up and be that for your child.

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

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).

Parents need to dial in and know what their kids are doing.

An artist is always alone if he is an artist. What the artist needs is loneliness.

Life can’t be all that bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

You must learn that you do not have to be angry just because you have the right to be.

There ain’t no freedom when you’ve got a worrying mind.

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.

Here I am alive, and it’s not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over.

Every one knows that insufficient rest and gorging are not good for anyone, either physically or mentally.

What is the purpose of life? I believe that the purpose of life is to be happy.

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

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.

“I can’t do it” never accomplished anything; “I will try” has performed miracles.

When people believe in boundaries, they become part of them.

Freedom of speech does not protect you from the consequences of saying stupid shit

Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and all achievement.