Dr Phil McGraw

Like an enemy I knew as intimately as any friend, I came to know the nagging, constant emptiness of the incongruent life. I ignored myself and lived for people, purposes, and goals that weren’t my own. I betrayed who I was and instead accepted a fictional substitute that was defined from the outside in.

Take the high road, there’s a lot less traffic up there.

If what you’re doing isn’t working, change it.

The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we’re so busy now.

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’.

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

Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.

I don’t read history. That’s in the past. I’m thinking of the future.

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.

You never miss what you’ve never had. I never had any other life. I didn’t know any other life.

A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.

It is just good practice to do a situational scan and have situational awareness when you are out in the world.

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.

Every one knows that insufficient rest and gorging are not good for anyone, either physically or mentally.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that make horseraces.

It takes years to find your voice and seize your real estate.

You know, it sounds like I’m bragging in some way, but as far as career stuff, there’s not that much stuff that scares me. I know what I can do well.

In the meantime, let’s agree that what makes a problem big is simply that it’s yours.