Dr Phil McGraw

If somebody put a loaded gun to my head & said call your wife the “c” word, i would just tell them to shoot cause it s a quicker death!

Well, let me tell you, if you’re 45, had three children and are post-menopausal, you’re not going to weigh what you did the day you graduated from high school. Get that out of your head. That’s a media-driven ideal that you’re never going to healthfully obtain.

When you allow a person’s words to upset you, you’re giving away your power.

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.

Life is managed; it is not cured.

I think you’re running into a lot of trouble if your idea of foreplay is, ‘Brace yourself honey, here I come!’

You, and only you, choose how you feel.

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love.

If you really understand Zen, you can use any book, even the dictionary, because the sound of the rain needs no translation.

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.

I do not like to be unkind.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.

Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.

Life is like improvised jazz. We cannot regulate all the variables. We must play it with panache and flair as best we can.

Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table.

The worst things in history have happened when people stop thinking for themselves and listen to other people and, even worse, start following other people. That’s what gives rise to dictators.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.