Dr Phil McGraw

The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior, so you have got to create a new history.

What I want people to do is what’s healthy for them.

You don’t have to love everything a person does to love that person.

Pain is the price you pay for resisting life.

Grief is a process to go through, not a destination in which to wallow. In a process, you keep putting one foot in front of the other, and each little step is part of your healing.

You are only as happy as your saddest child.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.

If you enjoy it enough you’re bound to learn something.

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

Worry is the most wasteful thing in the world.

Every loss of life is terrible.

All life is experience, and one level is exchanged for another only when its lesson is learned.

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for – in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.

I grew up in a very masculine environment. So I was around a lot of men, my brothers and their friends. There was just a lot of guys around.

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

Love in your heart wasn’t put there to stay, Love isn’t love ’til you give it away!

The satisfaction that arises from honest accomplishment is of far more value in the promotion of human happiness than the thrill that comes with the realization of materialistic aspirations.