Dr Phil McGraw

It’s time for you to claim the happiness that you deserve in your life.

When I was practicing psychology, I used to tell myself if I ever get to where I’m just doing this for the money or I’m just going through the motions, I’ll quit.

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

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

You have to figure out what that is, and you have to make a plan to get to it. And the plan has got to have a timeline. You have to choose something that you can afford to do and then lock it in and passionately do it.

You need to face the pain and the fear and walk through the Grief.

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we’re so busy now.

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

Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.

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

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

In the end, you’re just a renter anyway. You only own these things for as long as you live. After that, who knows? If I live until I’m 80, I’ll have 30 more years of collecting. If the collection is big enough, I’ll build a museum. And if not, I’ll leave it to a museum.

To be a leader, you must stand for something, or you will fall for anything.

Clouds float in the same pattern only once.

A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

We don’t see things as they are. We see things as we are.

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it.

They (wives) are people who think when the telephone bell rings, it is against the law not to answer it