Dr Phil McGraw

If you harbor hatred, anger, and bitterness (towards her), then you are absolutely locked into a bond through those negative emotions.

Not everybody is some kind of media model.

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.

It’s hard to see your own face without a mirror.

Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they’ll feel confused and lost.

People who have nothing to hide, hide nothing. You should be an open book, be transparent.

It’s just a matter of managing expectations. So for me, for example, you know, when your husband is President of the United States and you have children, something has got to give. I’ve made compromises in my life and my career, but I’ve also, in exchange, gained a wonderful platform to do some great work.

Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table.

When you get emotional, slow your thoughts down, and listen attentively (write it down). That way, you’ll be able to hear what you are thinking. You do this becoming very still and very quiet, and recording your thoughts. These high-speed thoughts and internal reactions always precede your feelings and emotions. Trust me, you did tell yourself something if you now feel anger, mad, anxious, frustrated, sad or depressed. From now on, whenever you get upset, listen ever so carefully, to what you are telling yourself.

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.

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

We ought to know more about the families who founded this nation, and how they lived. One way to do this is to reconstruct as nearly as possible the conditions under which they lived.

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

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

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

What’s to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough time, and I am quite proud that I got out of that.

I have been at it ten years. I collect them so that they will not be lost to America. We have no Egyptian mummies here, nor any relics of the Battle of Waterloo nor any curios from Pompeii. It is strictly American.

I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

This is your life and the clock is ticking.