“With love, there are no rules. The heart decides and what it decides is all that really matters.”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
“Now it is no longer a matter of deciding what to do, but of deciding how to decide.”
— Rollo May, book Love and Will
Source: Love and Will (1969), Ch. 1 : Introduction : Our Schizoid World, p. 15
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Context: Frodo: I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.
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