Dr Phil McGraw

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’.

Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering.

Why do so many marriages fail? Because nobody gets taught how to be married. We’re not taught how to pick a mate, or why to pick a mate; we don’t know how to manage our emotions once we’re in a marriage; we don’t know how to resolve marital conflict. Married people have never been taught why they or their spouses feel the way they do and act the way they do. Nobody has ever taught us the fundamentals.

This ain’t my first rodeo son!

The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There’s just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent’s voice to resonate in the children’s ears.

I grew up in athletics, where people keep score.

Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

Let’s make ourselves happy

Action may not bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

The key to being happy is knowing you have the power to choose what to except and what to let go.

When I hold you in my arms and I feel my finger on your trigger I know no one can do me no harm because happiness is a warm gun.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

You don’t stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it, than you do to consume wealth without producing it.

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Money itself won’t bring happiness, but it sure makes paying the bills easier.

I love people who make me laugh.

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

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