Dr Phil McGraw

People have the right to think and say whatever they want to. But you have the right not to take it to heart, and not to react.

Unless you know who you are, you will always be vulnerable to what people say.

Forgiveness of those who have transgressed against you, or those you love, is not about them; it is about you. It is a gift to yourself.

Pain is the price you pay for resisting life.

I think I’ve got the best staff in television.

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.

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

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

2 is not equal to 3, not even for large values of 2.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

I feel like I got a pile of cattle chasing my ass, and I’m pedaling as hard as I can to stay in front of ‘em. I’m looking behind me driving like hell.

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

If someone out there doesn’t agree with me, then somewhere a village is missing their idiot.

The trouble with being punctual is that nobody’s there to appreciate it.

The partnership of mind and matter is one which has existed since the beginning of time and cannot be dissolved.

Let us not forget: I didn’t just wake up First Lady… I mean, I went to law school, I practised law, I worked for the city, I ran a nonprofit (and) I was an executive at a hospital. I’ve been in the world. I’ve worked in every sector, and you don’t do that without coming up against some stuff. You know, having your feelings hurt, having people say things about you that aren’t true… Life hits you, so over the course of living, you learn how to protect yourself in it. You learn to take in what you need and get rid of the stuff that’s clearly not true.