Dr Phil McGraw

Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they’ll feel confused and lost.

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don’t choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.

You have got to decide, look, this is who I am; this is my best way to present myself, and I’m going to ride that horse to the finish line. Not everybody will like it, but that’s OK.

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.

I do not believe, even remotely, that you have to have a partner in your life in order to be whole, in order to be complete, in order to be fulfilled. You just don’t have to.

Experts indicate that you should aim for consistent weight loss of about one to two pounds per week, so you should remain realistic—you aren’t going to lose 40 pounds per week (no matter what any diet product claims).

There are two types of speakers, those that are nervous and those that are liars.

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

Shoot for the moon. If you miss you’ll still end up in the stars.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

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

Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, I’m going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that’s tough. I am going to snow anyway.

I’m beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.

I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once. I am happy being here and all the things that are a risk I normally avoid.

People who have nothing to hide, hide nothing. You should be an open book, be transparent.

Everyone makes mistakes. The wise are not people who never make mistakes, but those who forgive themselves and learn from their mistakes.

It isn’t true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times if you know how.

That dog don’t hunt.

I Shall Return!