39 Quotes by Milton H. Erickson

You can pretend anything and master it.

The most important thing in changing human behavior is the person’s motivation.

People do not come into therapy to change their past but their future.

The unconscious mind works without your knowledge and that is the way it prefers.

You can’t effect the cards that you are dealt, but you can determine how you play them.

The unconscious mind is decidedly simple, unaffected, straightforward and honest. It hasn’t got all of this facade, this veneer of what we call adult culture. It’s rather simple, rather childish It is direct and free.

Trance is a natural everyday experience.

There are so many things in human living that we should regard not as traumatic learning but as incomplete learning, unfinished learning.

Life is lived in the present and directed toward a future.