Dr Phil McGraw

Awareness without action is worthless.

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.

When you get married, your loyalty, first and foremost, is to your spouse, and to the family that you create together.

If you need a miracle, be a miracle.

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

You have to figure out what that is, and you have to make a plan to get to it. And the plan has got to have a timeline. You have to choose something that you can afford to do and then lock it in and passionately do it.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Learn when’s a good time to shut up.

Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, young and old shared just a little of what he is good at doing.

The art of living… is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.

I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Don’t make me put your head in my blender!

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking.

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

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspision that he is trying to be funny.

You never miss what you’ve never had. I never had any other life. I didn’t know any other life.

And I’ll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.

The point of quotations is that one can use another’s words to be insulting.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

The Smiths dream into my ear on this lost and lonely morning. I sing along like it is the only prayer I know (forgive me, Mother Mary).