Dr Phil McGraw

Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering.

I mean, if you degrade someone, you isolate them, you control them, you call them names, you demean them. That’s a horrible existence for people.

The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There’s just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent’s voice to resonate in the children’s ears.

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’.

Anger is nothing more than an outward expression of hurt, fear and frustration.

Willpower is a myth. The problem with trying to use willpower to achieve and sustain a behavioral change is that it is fueled by emotion. And as we all know, our emotions are, at best, fickle. They come and go. When your emotions start running down — and they will — even your best-laid plans will fall flat.

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.

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing, but what you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.

A tiny leak can sink a ship.

The most dangerous notion a young man can acquire is that there is no more room for originality. There is no large room for anything else.

I am not prejudiced in any way.

Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.

Every one of us have things that we believe about ourselves when nobody else is looking, nobody else is listening, nobody else is monitoring what we’re doing. We believe things about ourselves.

A goal is a dream with a finish line.

[On leaving Brooklyn] I left the day I graduated high school.

We’ll love you just the way you are if you’re perfect.

You can’t put feathers on a dog and call it a chicken!

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

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

You generate the results in your life that you believe you deserve.