Dr Phil McGraw

This ain’t my first rodeo son!

You need to listen to your body because your body is listening to you.

I would rather be healthy alone, then sick with someone else.

There is no reality, only perception.

I don’t substitute anybody else’s judgment for my own.

No dog ever peed on a moving car.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

Not everything I write will be a masterpiece; I know that. It is a process selecting words to convey feelings never meant to be spoken. So maybe I’ve been searching for what’s already been said and this is the finest way I can say it. I love you, in everything I am, I love you.

You have to figure out what that is, and you have to make a plan to get to it. And the plan has got to have a timeline. You have to choose something that you can afford to do and then lock it in and passionately do it.

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

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

I grew up not understanding what was true and what was not true. It gave me a sense of unreality.

Sometimes, the only way to discover who you are or what life you should lead is to do less planning and more living…

There is no mistake in nature.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

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

Whenever you get the idea that you are ‘fixed’ or that anything is ‘fixed’ for life, you’d better get ready for a sudden change.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.