Dr Phil McGraw

Be your authentic self. Your authentic self is who you are when you have no fear of judgment, or before the world starts pushing you around and telling you who you’re supposed to be. Your fictional self is who you are when you have a social mask on to please everyone else. Give yourself permission to be your authentic self.

The truth doesn’t have versions, it just is.

Loving smart means believing in you, your worth and your value.

Never put more in a relationship than you can afford to lose.

I don’t care how pumped up or psyched you are to start a new diet or a new program – that emotion will fade.

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

Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

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

They ask me how I love you and I say in pages, in novels, in volumes. I love you like my favorite story, the one that I wake up to every day and watch unfold. And I don’t know how it ends, but I know your name is already written in the chapters of my life that I have yet to live.

You be the clouds above, I’ll be the grass below, and everything in between will be where our love will grow.

We are here for experience, and experience is a preparation to know the Truth when we meet it.

There can be no lasting peace where hatred exists. Hatreds will continue to arise as long as the causes of war are not rooted out and exposed.

When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

History is more or less bunk.

An artist is always alone if he is an artist. What the artist needs is loneliness.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

Forgiveness is just another name for freedom.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

This morning I woke with my ear pressed between shoulder blades. Every inhale, every drum, every pump, thump of your heartbeat said one thing – home, home, home.