Quotes from Milton Erickson

Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy. Milton Erickson

Change will lead to insight more often than insight will lead to change.

It is really amazing what people can do. Only they don't know what they can do.

You use hypnosis not as a cure but as a means of establishing a favorable climate in which to learn.

You can teach a child the importance of pain by your behavior. You can also teach as child the importance of no pain by your behavior.

I am very confident. I look confident. I act confident. I speak in a confident way...

When I wanted to know something, I wanted it undistorted by somebody else's imperfect knowledge.

Life's difficulties are merely necessary roughage.

One's appreciation of, and understanding of the normal or the usual is requisite for any understanding of the abnormal or the unusual.