Dr Phil McGraw

People are used to being coddled.

There is nothing wrong with your marriage if you’re dealing with bills and kids and the broken garbage disposal and in-laws and work demands. That’s a normal marriage.

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.

If you’re trying to get out of debt, you have to be willing to treat everything as expendable.

I think you’re running into a lot of trouble if your idea of foreplay is, ‘Brace yourself honey, here I come!’

You have the duty and gift of living. You don’t have the right to sit on the sidelines–use your life and get back into the game.

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

Know people for who they are rather than for what they are.

Improvements have been coming so quickly that the past is being lost to the rising generation, and it can be preserved only by putting it in a form where it may be seen and felt. That is the reason behind this collection.

It’s just a matter of managing expectations. So for me, for example, you know, when your husband is President of the United States and you have children, something has got to give. I’ve made compromises in my life and my career, but I’ve also, in exchange, gained a wonderful platform to do some great work.

Sometimes it’s not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don’t mean.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past — whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

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.

There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem.

The Smiths dream into my ear on this lost and lonely morning. I sing along like it is the only prayer I know (forgive me, Mother Mary).

Nothing is more difficult, in my opinion, than to avoid something that fundamentally attracts you.

We may appear to be mean, but we’re really only frightened.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.

Dream is not the thing what you see in sleep, dream is the thing that does not let you sleep.

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.

I share no man’s opinions; I have my own.