Phil McGraw Quotes

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Reality check: you can never, ever, use weight loss to solve problems that are not related to your weight. At your goal weight or not, you still have to live with yourself and deal with your problems. You will still have the same husband, the same job, the same kids, and the same life. Losing weight is not a cure for life.

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The difference between winners and losers is that winners do things losers don't want to do.

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Life is a full-contact sport, and there's a score up on the board.

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Change can come in either of two important ways: Start behaving positively or stop behaving negatively.

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You cannot be who and what you are unless you have a lifestyle, both internally and externally, that is designed to support that definition of self.

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Dr. Phil's Ten Life Laws You either get it or you don't. You create your own experience. People do what works. You cannot change what you do not acknowledge. Life rewards action. There is no reality, only perception. Life is managed; it is not cured. We teach people how to treat us. There is power in forgiveness. You have to name it before you can claim it.

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There is an interconnectedness among members that bonds the family, much like mountain climbers who rope themselves together when climbing a mountain, so that if someone should slip or need support, he's held up by the others until he regains his footing.

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At this very moment, you may be saying to yourself that you have any number of admirable qualities. You are a loyal friend, a caring person, someone who is smart, dependable, fun to be around. That's wonderful, and I'm happy for you, but let me ask you this: are you being any of those things to yourself?

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The number one need in all people is the need for acceptance, the need to experience a sense of belonging to something and someone. The need for acceptance is more powerful in your family than anywhere else.... If that need is not met by your family, trust me, your kids will go elsewhere to seek it in order to find approval and acceptance.

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I believe that in this life, we are defined not by the station in life into which we are born, nor by our pedigree, race, or religion, but by the choices we make.

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Like an enemy I knew as intimately as any friend, I came to know the nagging, constant emptiness of the incongruent life. I ignored myself and lived for people, purposes, and goals that weren't my own. I betrayed who I was and instead accepted a fictional substitute that was defined from the outside in.

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