Dr Phil McGraw

You would worry less about what people think, if you knew how little they did.

You don’t need a pack of wild horses to learn how to make a sandwich.

You need to face the pain and the fear and walk through the Grief.

Your feelings? To hell with your feelings!

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.

The quickest way from A to B is not always at the most feverish pace.

I don’t like when there’s too much conversation because I’m shy and it makes me uncomfortable.

Zen teaches that if we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform and lighten up about it.

Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex and intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple and stupid behavior.

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for – in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.

Better contraceptives will control population only if people will use them. A nuclear holocaust can be prevented only if the conditions under which nations make war can be changed. The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned. We need to make vast changes in human behavior.

How beautiful the world was when one looked at it without searching, just looked, simply and innocently.

What lies in our power to do, lies in our power not to do.

In matters of style, swim with the current;In matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Many people seem to believe that Greenfield Village and the Edison Institute and Museum at Dearborn, with their specimens of earlier type of American life and industry, are just a kind of antiquarian hobby of mine. I do not deny that they have given me a great deal of interest and pleasure. But the project is vastly more than a hobby. It has very definite purposes, and I hope will have results lasting down the years. One purpose is to remind the public who visit it and sometimes there are thousands a day–of how farand how fast we have come in technical progress in the last century or so. If we have come so far and so fast, is it likely that we shall stop now?

Willpower is a myth. The problem with trying to use willpower to achieve and sustain a behavioral change is that it is fueled by emotion. And as we all know, our emotions are, at best, fickle. They come and go. When your emotions start running down — and they will — even your best-laid plans will fall flat.

If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.

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

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

I mean, if you degrade someone, you isolate them, you control them, you call them names, you demean them. That’s a horrible existence for people.

Insight emerges out of silence.