“Self-questioning is a first step on the path to self-awareness.”

— Laura Archera Huxley, You Are Not The Target, 1963, Part Two, 7: Questions and How to Ask Them

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.”

“Ask yourself at every moment, "Is this necessary?"”

“Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!”

“It may be called the Master Passion—the hunger for Self-Approval.”

“The only possible society is oneself.”

“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”

“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.”