“I did not understand that one future comes at the exclusion of all others. Everybody pretends that you die only once. But that’s not true. You can die a thousand possible futures in the course of a single, stupid life.” ChoicesLife PhilosophyFutureLiveDie Book:No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear Source: No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear
“I think the solution to the past and the future is that there is none. It’s that we borrow from each of them for really — to make really meaningful choices; is that we pull from the past in order to inform a richer future. We pull from the future to be like, Well, it reminds me that these things are yet undone. But if we prevent ourselves from moving between past, present, and future, I think we become really narrow in our cultural language for how to live.” LifePastChoicesFutureLivingMeaningPresent Author:Kate Bowler
“Life is not a series of choices. And I think the pandemic made that clearer than ever before, to everyone at the same time, that choice was always an illusion and a luxury. It was just an obsession we picked up with the invention of modernity — that we could always really curate our lives.” ChoicesIllusionLuxuryChoiceCovid 19PandemicModern World Author:Kate Bowler