“You alone can change yourself, and when you do, then circumstances and people will both seem and be changed.”

— 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.”

“I have always striven to remain in a state of flux and continued growth, and not to petrify in a niche of self-satisfaction.”

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

“I am not now that which I have been.”

“There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.”

“It was for this that I've been training myself, it was for this that I was practising.”

“For freedom is not acquired by satisfying yourself with what you desire, but by destroying your desire.”