“Each one of us has, in varying degree, the power to make others feel better or worse.”

— Laura Archera Huxley, You Are Not The Target, 1963, Part One, 1. Love, Not-Love

About Laura Archera Huxley

Italian-American violinist, psychotherapist and author of "You Are Not the Target" (1963).

“Creativity is not the monopoly of the Shakespeares and Einsteins of this world.”

“Like any other faculty, imagination can be starved and suffocated or stimulated and nourished.”

“Making others feel better generally makes us feel better.”

“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”

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“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

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“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

“He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.”

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“The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.”

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”