“Everything is invented. Language. Childhood. Careers. Relationships. The Future. They are not there for the plucking. They don’t exist in some natural state. They must be invented by people. And that, of course, is the great thing. Don’t mope in your room. Go and invent something. That is the American Message. Electricity. Flight. The telephone. Television. Computers. Walking on the moon. It never stops.”—Maira Kalman (via wearethedigitalkids) (via steadyconscious)
“Free-floating ambition is toxic because it means that anyone who has accomplished anything in any realm of human endeavor is the enemy because she might be your competition. So you hate everyone a little bit, but behind this wall of hatred you still feel vulnerable. And you are vulnerable, but not because of the competition. You’re vulnerable because it anyone points you in anything that seems like a direction, that’s where you’ll go.”—Emily Gould, And the Heart Says Whatever (via autostraddle)
