Dr Phil McGraw

In the meantime, let’s agree that what makes a problem big is simply that it’s yours.

People create their own experiences.

No dog ever peed on a moving car.

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.

You can’t put feathers on a dog and call it a chicken!

All begins with you surrounding yourself with the right people—the good and authentic people—and “unsurrounding” yourself with the wrong people. And we both know there are plenty of wrong people in this world.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Boredom: the desire for desires.

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.

Of all the follies the elder generation falls victim to this is the most foolish, namely, the constant criticism of the younger element who will not be and cannot be like ourselves because we and they are different tribes produced of different elements in the great spirit of Time.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

Love is simple: It is waking up knowing you exist in a mind outside of your own. It is having one heart that carries two beats. It is you and me spoken in terms of us and we.

Do not fear your enemies. The worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear friends. At worst, they may betray you. Fear those who do not care; they neither kill nor betray, but betrayal and murder exists because of their silent consent.

Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia.

You’re only lonely if you’re not there for you.

Indulgence doesn’t prepare, indulgence can cripple a child because the world won’t indulge her.

Eighty percent of all questions are statements in disguise.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

If you want to change the world, start with the next person who comes to you in need.