Dr Phil McGraw

Sometimes you’ve just gotta give yourself what you wish you were getting from someone else.

You have the duty and gift of living. You don’t have the right to sit on the sidelines–use your life and get back into the game.

You either get it or you don’t. Become one of those who get it.

I don’t substitute anybody else’s judgment for my own.

When you do something that you really think is stupid, bad decision, irresponsibleand it just happens and you suffer it then that’s penalty. But if you learn from it it becomes tuition.

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.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars.

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

From the day I arrived, California seemed like an enchanted land.

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.

There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem.

The present method of producing milk is too laborious. I believe that we can make milk by scientific process, eliminating the cow.

I am what I am Are you what you are or What?

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

I lie and tell you I had a dream about you last night, so it makes it more socially acceptable to reach out to someone I haven’t spoken to in years.

Don’t worry about things you cannot alter.

I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

For them that think death’s honesty won’t fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.

If you need a miracle, be a miracle.

Throughout this life, you can never be certain of living long enough to take another breath.