Dr Phil McGraw

Life experiences, mental illness, drugs, greed, environment, and poor role-modeling can all forge damaged people and can generate a darkness, an exploitiveness, in the way they approach life. Whatever their genesis, there are people in your life (and mine) who will hurt you if you let them.

If you ever get started on the right path to change, there is one important precondition you have to meet. You must rid yourself of that gnawing and overpowering sense of urgency and panic that always seems to appear on the scene.

God is a loving god.

Well, I’m not sure what pop psychology is, but I don’t like it.

I have some wonderful friends from the Mideast that are as red, white and blue as anybody you know, that have been harassed, and I think it’s a terrible, terrible thing.

Failure is no accident.

The only prosperity the people can afford to be satisfied with is the kind that lasts.

This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.

It’s not for me. I tried human flesh and it’s too salty for my taste.

What gives life its value you can find – and lose. But never posess. This holds good above all for “the Truth about Life.

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.

There is an interconnectedness among members that bonds the family, much like mountain climbers who rope themselves together when climbing a mountain, so that if someone should slip or need support, he’s held up by the others until he regains his footing.

Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.

You are your own most important resource for making your life work. Life rewards action. Until your knowledge, awareness, insights, and understandings are translated into action, they are of no value.

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.