Milton H. Erickson

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

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

“Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy.”

“Until you are willing to be confused about what you already know, what you know will never grow bigger.”

“A goal without a date is just a dream.”

“It is the client who knows the solution, not the therapist.”

“The unconscious mind is a storehouse of all our memories, our wisdom, our abilities, and all that we have learned.”

“Don't let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action.”

“Pain is a part of life. Suffering is an interpretation of that pain.”

“Trust your unconscious; it knows more than you do.”

“Allow yourself to be a beginner. No one starts off being excellent.”

“Your patients are your patients because they are out of rapport with their own unconscious.”

“The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.”

“It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.”

“Every person has all the resources they need to be successful.”

“The major goal of the entire process of psychotherapy is to give a person a new frame of reference, a new way of looking at things.”

“The most important thing in changing human behavior is the person's own motivation.”