“We should train ourselves in the use of imagination when we are well, so that we are ready to use it when we are not.”

— 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.”

“Where we find a difficulty we may always expect that a discovery awaits us. Where there is cover we hope for game.”

“A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.”

“He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.”

“Yet I argue not against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate one jot of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer right onward.”

“I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power, the greater it will be.”

“Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.”