If emotional pain or problems have cropped up in your life, you must insist on getting closure. Closure means you don’t carry the problem or the pain. You address the issue, then you slam shut the book and put it away.
PHIL MCGRAWTake the high road, there’s a lot less traffic up there.
More Phil McGraw Quotes
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Experts indicate that you should aim for consistent weight loss of about one to two pounds per week, so you should remain realistic—you aren’t going to lose 40 pounds per week (no matter what any diet product claims).
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We teach people how to treat us.
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Learn when’s a good time to shut up
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You wouldn’t worry so much about what other people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.
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You can’t change what you don’t acknowledge.
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I love life, but not everything in it. I love people, but not all of them. I love myself, but not everything about me.
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Forgiveness of those who have transgressed against you, or those you love, is not about them; it is about you. It is a gift to yourself.
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I ask you to go back and read them over again, and this time answer them keeping in mind that you are writing your children’s future with your answers.
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Power begins with having a crystal-clear view of reality and what each and every person in your life is driven by.
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Hey, dummy, you might want to take the time and learn to fly before you do this again!
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If you continue to do what you’ve always done, you will continue to have what you’ve always had.
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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.
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First, you’re going to have to stop using food for anything other than nutrition. You cannot continue to use food to celebrate, or as a companion, or for entertainment, or comfort. You cannot medicate yourself, your mood, or pain with food.
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If you ever get started on the right path to change, there is one important precondition you have to meet. You must rid yourself of that gnawing and overpowering sense of urgency and panic that always seems to appear on the scene.
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All begins with you surrounding yourself with the right people—the good and authentic people—and unsurrounding yourself with the wrong people. And we both know there are plenty of wrong people in this world.
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