Dr Phil McGraw

You can’t change other people or (some) conditions; you can change only your reactions to them.

Men fall in love with their eyes. Women fall in love with their ears.

You should consider an employment change before you consider selling out.

Relationships are truly like a garden, if you tend it, water it, weed it and feed it, it will grow into a beautiful garden. If you only go out there every few weeks to look it over for a few moments, what do you think it’s going to look like in a few months? It’s going to be a weed patch. It will disappear.

If she doesn’t acknowledge what happened, then how can we trust that she is going to be different in the future?

We teach people how to treat us.

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

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Love is simple: It is waking up knowing you exist in a mind outside of your own. It is having one heart that carries two beats. It is you and me spoken in terms of us and we.

There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that make horseraces.

Positive anything is better than negative thinking.

But I do know there are not enough syllables to spell out how much I love you. I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love… You are my every moment, my every hour, my every day, my every season, and I know this isn’t poetry and it’s certainly not a haiku, it’s just all the things I needed to say to you.

This ain’t my first rodeo son!

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

The South has a future which it can shape for itself, and avoid the mistakes which the more populous parts of the country have made.

Life’s three best teachers: heartbreak, empty pocket, failures.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

I have survivor’s curiosity, I guess.