“Let us initiate a change in ourselves, for then, and then only, shall we be able to effect a change in other people.”

— 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.”

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

“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”

“Science is not the truth. Science is finding the truth. When science changes its opinion, it didn't lie to you.”

“Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.”

“Whoever desires that his intellect may grow up to soundness, to healthy vigor, must begin with moral discipline.”

“Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.”

“For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment.”