Dr Phil McGraw

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.

Sometimes you have to make the right decision, and sometimes you have to make the decision right.

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

Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering.

Drama and crisis are currency to them because they love the power to make people react. They thrive on a good fight, a good scandal, a good drama.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You’d wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

When you embark for strange places don’t leave any of yourself safely at the shore… Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.

Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear Heart, Good night, good night.

Change isn’t a light switch; it’s slow and gradual.

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

You don’t get anything clean without getting something else dirty.

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

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.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They’ll tell you.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

If you need a miracle, be a miracle.