Dr Phil McGraw

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

Nothing’s funnier to me than laughing at myself.

When you get emotional, slow your thoughts down, and listen attentively (write it down). That way, you’ll be able to hear what you are thinking. You do this becoming very still and very quiet, and recording your thoughts. These high-speed thoughts and internal reactions always precede your feelings and emotions. Trust me, you did tell yourself something if you now feel anger, mad, anxious, frustrated, sad or depressed. From now on, whenever you get upset, listen ever so carefully, to what you are telling yourself.

If you harbor hatred, anger, and bitterness (towards her), then you are absolutely locked into a bond through those negative emotions.

Do you want to be right or do you want to be happy?

Be your authentic self. Your authentic self is who you are when you have no fear of judgment, or before the world starts pushing you around and telling you who you’re supposed to be. Your fictional self is who you are when you have a social mask on to please everyone else. Give yourself permission to be your authentic self.

Every loss of life is terrible.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Invention is the mother of necessity.

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.

The secret of life is to validate your existence.

If you can find a way to be truly ambivalent about what people think about you as an artist you’re completely freed up because you just end up doing things that turn you on creatively, and then as a person you really try and drown the noise.

No matter how flat you make a pancake, it’s still got two sides.

Life is a full-contact sport, and there’s a score up on the board.

People create their own experiences.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up… now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.