Dr Phil McGraw

I love life, but not everything in it. I love people, but not all of them. I love myself, but not everything about me.

The problem is that for women, the average time is just over 14 minutes… men are left with about 12 minutes during which time they need to think of something to do!

I have some wonderful friends from the Mideast that are as red, white and blue as anybody you know, that have been harassed, and I think it’s a terrible, terrible thing.

You are so much more than what people have done to you, and to let that define you, would be a tragedy.

There’s a big difference between falling in love and being in love. There’s a big difference between infatuation and falling in love.

If we were all just alike, one of us wouldn’t be necessary.

While I am opposed to all orthodox creeds, I have a creed myself; and my creed is this. Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. This creed is somewhat short, but it is long enough for this life, strong enough for this world. If there is another world, when we get there we can make another creed.

How often, for example, have you said or heard someone else say, “All I really want in this life is to be happy”? It sounds like a commonsense answer, but as a life goal, it is destined for failure. My dog, Barkley, wants to be happy. Does that mean that the two of you want the same things? I don’t think so. I’ll bet everything I own that you and Barkley define happiness very differently. So unless you’re willing to settle for someone scratching your belly and letting you sleep under the coffee table, you might want to be a little more precise about what you as a unique individual really want.

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

A lifetime of happiness? No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Don’t worry, be happy!

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.

If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.

I think happiness is love.

The truth is that all of us can attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to its greatest extent.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Pursue whatever it is that you want to do with your life. It is the only secret to happiness that I know except for maybe true love, that and maybe having the amazing health insurance plan that our congressmen have.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.