Dr Phil McGraw

Power begins with having a crystal-clear view of reality and what each and every person in your life is driven by.

These are our neighbours, our co-workers, friends’ children… the problem is closer than you think, but so is the solution.

You’re only lonely if you’re not there for you.

Sometimes you’ve just gotta give yourself what you wish you were getting from someone else.

Don’t wait until you’re in a crisis to come up with a crisis plan.

If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.

If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I’d type a little faster.

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

If you really understand Zen, you can use any book, even the dictionary, because the sound of the rain needs no translation.

Change isn’t a light switch; it’s slow and gradual.

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

People who are capable of and fit for freedom liberate themselves from physical thralldom by substituting mind for muscle.

When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Sometimes, the only way to discover who you are or what life you should lead is to do less planning and more living…

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.

People will try to fix world but world will fix people.

Life, as I see it, is not a location, but a journey. Life flows.

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

Trouble is part of your life — if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.