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You don't take insults. You leave them with the insulter.

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

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

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

You can trust the unconscious.

The conscious ego cannot tell the unconscious what to do?

Shut up, sit in that chair there and go into a deep trance!

Allow yourself to see what you don't allow yourself to see.

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

People who accomplish a great many things are people who have freed themselves from biases. These are the creative people.

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

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

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

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

How many of us really appreciate the childishness of the unconscious mind?

Until you are willing to be confused about what you already know, what you know will never grow bigger, better, or more useful.

We always translate the other person's language into our own language.

Don't ask why the patient is the way he is, ask for what he would change.

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

You can pretend anything and master it.

Enlightenment is always preceded by confusion.

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

Trance is a natural everyday experience.

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.

A goal without a date is just a dream.

Life's difficulties are merely necessary roughage.

Therapy is often a matter of tipping the first domino.

As for my dignity ... the hell with my dignity. I will get along alright in this world. I don't have to be dignified, professional.

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

I have no intention of dying. In fact, it will be the last thing I do!

You can't learn to swim on a piano bench.

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.

What is easiest to see is often overlooked.