Dr Phil McGraw

If we were all just alike, one of us wouldn’t be necessary.

I tell you, if you’re in the front row of the parade and you stop walking, pretty soon you’re back in the tuba section. And if you want to lead the parade you’ve got to keep moving.

People are used to being coddled.

You must demand nothing less than the best of yourself and for yourself. You must tell yourself that it is not wrong to want it all.

You have to figure out what that is, and you have to make a plan to get to it. And the plan has got to have a timeline. You have to choose something that you can afford to do and then lock it in and passionately do it.

You, and only you, choose how you feel.

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before–more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.

Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.

Now payback is a bad bitch and baby, I’m the baddest.

I’m grateful for all the breaks and honors and opportunities I’ve had, but I always believe I won’t have it made until the humblest black kid in the most remote backwoods of America has it made.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Silence is so accurate.

Don’t find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain.

You’ll turn out ordinary if you’re not careful.

People cannot discover new lands until they have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

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.

I don’t like to read books. They muss up my mind.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.

There have been times when I’ve been around people I wouldn’t care to be around, and if I could get away I would. We have a word in Mississippi – we just don’t seem to set horses. In other words, this person is always saying something that gets your goat, y’understand? But when people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there I had nobody I disliked other than the people that’d mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.

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