Dr Phil McGraw

I ask you to go back and read them over again, and this time answer “Self-acceptance was the foundation of the happiest time in your life and it was the engine that powered the train.

The truth doesn’t have versions, it just is.

Change can come in either of two important ways: Start behaving positively or stop behaving negatively.

I’ve talked to so many people, men and women alike, that get overweight and their self-esteem just goes in the tank. They think they’re judged. They think they’re unattractive.

You need to listen to your body because your body is listening to you.

One side of unhealthy relating is if you are always pursuing or always retreating.

I’m going to go down and take care of the bill. I’m not going to embarrass you, just let me do it. I had such a great time, I just want it to be my treat. [On returning after several minutes red faced] They won’t take my check, I don’t know what we’re going to do. [Robertson said ‘David, what we’ve spent here, we’re going to have to do a lot of dishes.’] I’m going to call Prince Rupert [Loewenstein] and ask him to call the hotel and tell them I’m good for it. Or maybe he can pay the bill and then I’ll pay him back or something. [Prince Rupert vouched for his credit and the hotel agreed to accept Geffen’s check.]

I mean, if you degrade someone, you isolate them, you control them, you call them names, you demean them. That’s a horrible existence for people.

There is no mistake in nature.

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

If we had more justice there would be less need of charity.

If you ever get started on the right path to change, there is one important precondition you have to meet. You must rid yourself of that gnawing and overpowering sense of urgency and panic that always seems to appear on the scene.

If you believe, you will. If you don’t, you won’t.

I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter’s evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream… I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people’s tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting.

If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it — teach yourself to be impatient.

How beautiful the world was when one looked at it without searching, just looked, simply and innocently.

Love is kind, it’s clear. It’s effortless, and it’s irresistible.

The only prosperity the people can afford to be satisfied with is the kind that lasts.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

In the meantime, let’s agree that what makes a problem big is simply that it’s yours.

It is difference of opinion that makes horse races.