Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right.
Phil McGraw
It's better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.
We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of.
Awareness without action is worthless.
It's so much easier to tell people what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear.
You're only lonely if you're not there for you.
You need to listen to your body because your body is listening to you.
The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears.
We teach people how to treat us.
I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there's too much guilt.
Successful weight loss takes programming, not willpower.
Don't wait until you're in a crisis to come up with a crisis plan.
Take it from a guy: If you're in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon. You're going to get to her somehow, some way.
There's a big difference between falling in love and being in love. There's a big difference between infatuation and falling in love.
My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
I mean, look, teachers don't do their job for the money, obviously, because we pay them ridiculously little amounts for what they put in. Most of them come out of their own pocket for materials and things to help the children and all that.
Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.
You don't need a rope to pinch a stranger's butt.
The most you get is what you ask for.
There are some sick people in this world.
A year from now, you're gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now.
When you get married, your loyalty, first and foremost, is to your spouse, and to the family that you create together.
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.
Life is a full-contact sport, and there's a score up on the board.
If you want more, you have to require more from yourself.
Every one of us have things that we believe about ourselves when nobody else is looking, nobody else is listening, nobody else is monitoring what we're doing. We believe things about ourself.
You have got to decide, look, this is who I am; this is my best way to present myself, and I'm going to ride that horse to the finish line. Not everybody will like it, but that's OK.
Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering.
Do you realize that you can't play the game of life with sweaty palms?
At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you're living your life doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're comfortable with it.
You don't need a pack of wild horses to learn how to make a sandwich.
When I was practicing psychology, I used to tell myself if I ever get to where I'm just doing this for the money or I'm just going through the motions, I'll quit.
It's hard to see your own face without a mirror.
You know, what we do know is that there is a high frequency of violence in the home of those who bully.
God is a loving god.
A lot of people do have tragic childhoods. But you know what? Get over it.
If you're trying to get out of debt, you have to be willing to treat everything as expendable.
I think you're running into a lot of trouble if your idea of foreplay is, 'Brace yourself honey, here I come!'
The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now.
Oh, everybody wears a mask. We all put our best foot forward. We all try and make a statement, I'm not saying that's bad.
I grew up in athletics, where people keep score.
If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.
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.
Relationships are negotiated and if you deal with ultimatums and authority all the time, then you're not going to get anywhere.
If I was on the air and was just kind of a plain-vanilla personality that took the safe road and the safe way trying to please all of the people all of the time, I'd been gone in two weeks.
It's great if the in-laws themselves put up boundaries. But if they won't; it's up to their grown kids to do it and enforce them.
Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they'll feel confused and lost.
I've talked to so many people, men and women alike, that get overweight and their self-esteem just goes in the tank. They think they're judged. They think they're unattractive.
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.
