Dr Phil McGraw

If emotional pain or problems have cropped up in your life, you must insist on getting closure. Closure means you don’t carry the problem or the pain. You address the issue, then you slam shut the book and put it away.

You can’t change other people or (some) conditions; you can change only your reactions to them.

You are writing your children’s future with your answers.

Don’t base a relationship on sex. You need love, compassion and caring. Then sex can be a reflection of that.

People create their own experiences.

Forgiveness of those who have transgressed against you, or those you love, is not about them; it is about you. It is a gift to yourself.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Invention is the mother of necessity.

Now I’m a warrior.

Failure is no accident.

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

Know your goal, make a plan and pull the trigger.

Whatever it is, people who have more spare time than people ever had before get the sense of whirlwind pressure,and repeat the common criticism that ‘we are going too fast.’ Yet the people live longer than ever before, live with less effort, live on a higher plane. Is it possible that this common saying about our rapid pace is just another thoughtless mob suggestion?

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

Like all things vast and beautiful, I want to know the depths of which you exist. It has never been enough to wade in the shallows.

I’m doing it because I choose it. And if it’s not working, I can make a change.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

People say time heals all wounds. Let me tell you, time heals nothing. You can do the wrong thing for 10 years and it doesn’t equal the right thing for one day.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

Common sense needs to be more common.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find how far one can go.