Dr Phil McGraw

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

Grief is a process to go through, not a destination in which to wallow. In a process, you keep putting one foot in front of the other, and each little step is part of your healing.

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.

When you have the right script for your life, you will always be the star of the show.

I’ve learned a tremendous amount from Oprah.

Unless you know who you are, you will always be vulnerable to what people say.

There is nothing to search for; everything you seek is already within.

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.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Trouble is part of your life — if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

When your life is nearly over, you will regret it if you look back and recall too many nights when you made excuses instead of making love.

If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

Look beyond the individual to the cause of his misery.

Man is what he believes.

Every loss of life is terrible.

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

Enough or not…it will have to do.

2 is not equal to 3, not even for large values of 2.

I attribute whatever I may have been able to accomplish in life far more to my wife than to anything else and to everything else put together. But I cannot flatter myself that I found her because I was a ‘good picker’, I believe profoundly that we are guided, led, in such momentous matters.