Dr Phil McGraw

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.

There’s a big difference between falling in love and being in love. There’s a big difference between infatuation and falling in love.

No dog ever peed on a moving car.

If you want more, you have to require more from yourself.

You don’t have to love everything a person does to love that person.

Unless you know who you are, you will always be vulnerable to what people say.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

Experience is the harvest of life, and every harvest is the result of a sowing. The experience which young people must crave is that of success in some service for which they are naturally fitted.

Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

I know that god is real. I have seen him smile through the sunlight as it dances across your skin and lays gently at your feet.

It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

People who have nothing to hide, hide nothing. You should be an open book, be transparent.

But to do for the world more than the world does for you, that is Success.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

Scriptures, n.: The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.

Sometimes you win and sometimes you learn.

Never turn your back on enthusiasm.

Do you want to be right or do you want to be happy?

Greatest thing we can produce is character. Everything else can be taken from us, but not our character.