Milton H. Erickson

"the normal or the usual is requisite for any understanding of the abnormal or the unusual."

- Milton H. Erickson

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

- Milton H. Erickson

"Life's difficulties are merely necessary roughage."

- Milton H. Erickson

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

- Milton H. Erickson

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

- Milton H. Erickson

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

- Milton H. Erickson

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

- Milton H. Erickson

"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."

- Milton H. Erickson