“There is a science of intelligent living, an art of being fully human, in which we all can and ought to be creative.”

— Laura Archera Huxley, You Are Not The Target, 1963, Part Two, 26. Your Imagination is Yours

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.”

“At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it.”

“A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.”

“All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.”

“In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught; but in life there are many things to draw us aside.”

“That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within.”

“The young have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations.”