Dr Phil McGraw

The number one need in all people is the need for acceptance, the need to experience a sense of belonging to something and someone. The need for acceptance is more powerful in your family than anywhere else…. If that need is not met by your family, trust me, your kids will go elsewhere to seek it in order to find approval and acceptance.

Like an enemy I knew as intimately as any friend, I came to know the nagging, constant emptiness of the incongruent life. I ignored myself and lived for people, purposes, and goals that weren’t my own. I betrayed who I was and instead accepted a fictional substitute that was defined from the outside in.

That dog don’t hunt.

You either get it or you don’t. Become one of those who get it.

People have the right to think and say whatever they want to. But you have the right not to take it to heart, and not to react.

No dog ever peed on a moving car.

I never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

The things you own end up owning you.

A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

Creativity is a renewable resource. Be as creative as you like, as often as you like, because you can never run out!

Life is neither old or new, ancient or modern, but simply more or less vivid-any song or musical composition will live that expresses or reproduces this vividness of life.-From this you will see that I believe that music fills a great place. The teaching of it goes far to restore the balance and richness of life, and-I might add- the unit of life also.

Yesterday’s just a memory, tomorrow is never what it’s supposed to be.

Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

Opinions are like asses, every body’s got one!

I comfortable with everything – say whatever you want.

Trouble with the world today is people don’t go to children enough. I don’t like old people. I stay away from them.