It is entirely up to us to invent our own lives.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history.
Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life.
People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Most of us are having to invent, discover, and create the next steps of our lives without a light, a map, or a relevant tradition.
I have a sense that many Americans, especially those like me with European or foreign parents, feel they have to invent their families just as they have to invent themselves.
Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.
We don't invent our natures. They're issued to us along with our lungs, our pancreas and everything else.
We can make life in the computer. Granted, it's limited, but we have learned what it takes in order to actually construct it.
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