“Amor animi arbitrio sumitu, non ponitur; we choose to love; we do not choose to cease loving.”
“Publilius Syrus come to me: Amor animi arbitrio sumitur, non ponitur; we choose to love; we do not choose to cease loving.”
“Love is an intervention.Why do we not choose it?” (205)”
“We cannot choose the times we live in. Just as, sometimes, we cannot choose whom we love.”
“The point about love, the essential point, was that we loved what we loved. We did not choose. We just loved.”
“We become our decisions over time. We choose to love, or we can choose to hate. We can choose to forgive, or we can choose to take revenge; to have hope, or we can choose to fall into despair. But, regardless, we become our choices we make over time." p. 318”