Dr Phil McGraw

Why do so many marriages fail? Because nobody gets taught how to be married. We’re not taught how to pick a mate, or why to pick a mate; we don’t know how to manage our emotions once we’re in a marriage; we don’t know how to resolve marital conflict. Married people have never been taught why they or their spouses feel the way they do and act the way they do. Nobody has ever taught us the fundamentals.

I would rather be healthy alone, then sick with someone else.

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

I ask you to go back and read them over again, and this time answer “Self-acceptance was the foundation of the happiest time in your life and it was the engine that powered the train.

If you ever get started on the right path to change, there is one important precondition you have to meet. You must rid yourself of that gnawing and overpowering sense of urgency and panic that always seems to appear on the scene.

You know, what we do know is that there is a high frequency of violence in the home of those who bully.

People who consistently win have a clear and thoughtful strategy. They know what they need to do and when they need to do it. They write it down so they stay on course, and avoid any alternative that does not get them closer to the finish line.

Pain is the price you pay for resisting life.

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn’t mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.

We do not know who we are until we see what we can do.

I’d never met a woman I considered as intelligent as me. That sounds bigheaded, but every woman I met was either a dolly-chick, or a sort of screwed-up intellectual chick. And of course, in the field I was in, I didn’t meet many intellectual people anyway. I always had this dream of meeting an artist, an artist girl who would be like me. And I thought it was a myth, but then I met Yoko and that was it.

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

To me, you’ll always be the rising suns, the sinking moons, and all the stars that come between the sound of rain and river stones, the warmth of my sheets, the ache in my bones.

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspision that he is trying to be funny.

People are never so likely to be wrong as when they are organized. And they never have so little freedom. Perhaps that is why the people at large keep their freedom. People can be manipulated only when they are organized.

You don’t need a pack of wild horses to learn how to make a sandwich.

Some people prefer the passenger role, because it imposes no real pressure to decide or stand accountable for their life results.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

The love we were promised in fairy tales was never something for us to find. It has always been something for us to create.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.