Dr Phil McGraw

People have the right to think and say whatever they want to. But you have the right not to take it to heart, and not to react.

Unless you know who you are, you will always be vulnerable to what people say.

It’s so much easier to tell people what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear.

You can’t change what you don’t acknowledge.

Champions get what they want because they know what they want. They have a vision that keeps them motivated and efficiently on track. They see it, feel it, and experience it in their minds and hearts. What is success for you? You won’t get there without knowing what it feels and looks like.

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.

If I’m not interested in a woman, I’m straight-forward. Right after sex, I usually say, ‘I can’t do this anymore. Thanks for coming over!’

Partnerships must have loyalty and integrity at their core.

You know, it’s possible for two humans to be in a relationship without there needing to be some public reason for that relationship.

Take it from a guy: If you’re in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon. You’re going to get to her somehow, some way.

Friendship, ‘the wine of life,’ said Boswell, should, like a well-stocked cellar, be thus continually renewed. And Dr. Johnson added to this A man, Sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.

There’s a big difference between falling in love and being in love. There’s a big difference between infatuation and falling in love.

I don’t like anybody to be angry with me. I’d rather have friends.

I’m currently single, so I want to have fun! As for what guys need to do to date out of their league, it’s all about the swagger. If you have confidence, you can get pretty much any girl.

Don’t confuse feelings with facts and don’t ignore facts when they come as feelings.

Much healing can occur through the sexual act with a person you love and trust if the two of you can stay with each other during your most vulnerable moments. You enter into a sacred space, this unknown territory, from which you’ll emerge into new and unexpected states of being.

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

Your experience will be a lesson to all of us men to be careful not to marry ladies in very high positions.

My boyfriend and I live together, which means we don’t have sex-ever. Now that the milk is free, we’ve both become lactose intolerant.

No one is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow.

[On hooking up romantically with co-stars] It’s understandable. You’re in situations with an actress where you’re supposed to be intimate, physical, and vulnerable with each other, and sometimes feelings get crossed. It’s like you’re away at summer camp and it seems to make sense, but when you go back home, the reality is that it may not be a situation you want to be in.