Dr Phil McGraw

Happiness isn’t a one-size-fits-all proposition. You must define what it looks like for you and then make a conscious effort to access whatever gets you to your unique definition of joy.

First, you’re going to have to stop using food for anything other than nutrition. You cannot continue to use food to celebrate, or as a companion, or for entertainment, or comfort. You cannot medicate yourself, your mood, or pain with food.

Reality check: you can never, ever, use weight loss to solve problems that are not related to your weight. At your goal weight or not, you still have to live with yourself and deal with your problems. You will still have the same husband, the same job, the same kids, and the same life. Losing weight is not a cure for life.

People create their own experiences.

My dad used to say, ‘You wouldn’t worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.

Life is a marathon, it’s not a sprint.

I didn’t just come in on a load of turnips!

With all the wealth of the world at hand, there are human beings who hunger, whole nations who suffer cold. The judgment for this condition, for misusing Nature’s gifts, is the judgment upon man’s failure, man’s unsteadiness. Leadership is the thing.

It is just like man’s vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.

I think it’s the way you sparkle when you talk about the things you love.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

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

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

The sense of injustice, more than the unjust condition itself, is what wears on men’s minds.

There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.

I no longer feel the need of seeking out conscious Americanism. Because we live here and work here, we can be certain that when our music is mature it will also be American in quality.

Every one of us have things that we believe about ourselves when nobody else is looking, nobody else is listening, nobody else is monitoring what we’re doing. We believe things about ourselves.

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one’s head.

Instead of being ashamed of what you’ve been through, be proud of what you have overcome!

They said eyes are the key to the soul, and after looking into yours, I know you’ve unlocked mine.