"the normal or the usual is requisite for any understanding of the abnormal or the unusual."
- Milton H. Erickson
Awareness
"Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy."
- Milton H. Erickson
Happiness
"You use hypnosis not as a cure but as a means of establishing a favorable climate in which to learn."
- Milton H. Erickson
Learning
"It is really amazing what people can do. Only they don't know what they can do."
- Milton H. Erickson
Self-confidence
"When I wanted to know something, I wanted it undistorted by somebody else's imperfect knowledge."
- Milton H. Erickson
Insight
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity