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.

You don’t need a rope to pinch a stranger’s butt.

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

Life is a marathon, it’s not a sprint.

At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you’re living your life doesn’t matter. What matters is whether you’re comfortable with it.

Effective negotiators have a style that those whom they are trying to influence, relate to and admire.

Work like you don’t need the money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like nobody is watching.

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

Character is what you have left when you’ve lost everything you can lose.

The farther you look back, the farther you can look ahead.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

And when they played they really played. And when they worked they really worked.

Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.

There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.

I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules.

Ageing’s alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.