Dr Phil McGraw

You don’t have to love everything a person does to love that person.

Stand up and walk out of your history.

Relationships are negotiated and if you deal with ultimatums and authority all the time, then you’re not going to get anywhere.

Forgiveness of those who have transgressed against you, or those you love, is not about them; it is about you. It is a gift to yourself.

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.

Success means different things in different parts of my life, but overall if I have to define ultimately what success means – the bottom line – then for me it’s if the family is healthy and happy.

In this life you have to learn to get up because the road is full of stones.

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.

I don’t want your punk ass man, I’m too tough

I thought about writing a poem explaining how when you are lost at sea, even if you are rescued and survive, you never really come back. Then I realized everyone that’s ever been in love would already understand.

In order to succeed you must fail so you know what to do better the next time.

To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did; I ought to know because I’ve done it a thousand times.

Silence is so accurate.

Leaders inspire. They aren’t assigned leadership. They command it.

We Americans… bear the ark of liberties of the world.

Time wounds all heels.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

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.

You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

He not busy being born is busy dying.