Dr Phil McGraw

Don’t make me put your head in my blender!

If emotional pain or problems have cropped up in your life, you must insist on getting closure. Closure means you don’t carry the problem or the pain. You address the issue, then you slam shut the book and put it away.

In life you have three options with any situation that is a challenge. Remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it.

There are some sick people in this world.

Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering.

Those who marry for money end up EARNING it anyway.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon – but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx –the world went around, it didn’t stop for a second. It’s sad but true. John Kennedy, right?

Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!

Positive anything is better than negative thinking.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.

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.

And of all the things I look forward to in life, falling in love with you is at the top of the list.

We now know that anything which is economically right is also morally right. There can be no conflict between good economics and good morals.

Its a choice. You just have to decide that I’m not going to put my energy there. I’m going to decide to let this go. It’s your choice. You can embrace it, you can become a prisoner of bitterness and resentment anger and victim city, or you can just say ‘I’m going to live my life and be happy’.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

I’m the one that has to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.

Grief never mended no broken bones.

The difference between you and the person you envy, is that you settle for less.