It is enjoyable to see the beauty in life, but even with so much beauty, life becomes unbearable. The endless processions of days and dramas that people just let playout, as if they a def. Then when you are in a great deal of pain and reflect upon how it happened, it sometimes makes you strongly dislike life. However, life is a blessing, and I know that we just have to keep having faith and keep pushing forward and we will reach salvation, it just seems to take forever. When men drive a bargain, they strive to get the sunny side of it; it matters not one straw whether it is with man or Heaven they are bargaining with. #RyanPhillippe 1 of 8

There is a balance of good and bad everywhere; and nothing but the knowing it is so can emancipate one-half of the World from the prepossession which it holds against the other. Pain rather seemed to increase life than to weaken life in these champions. A well-proportioned mind is one which shows no particular bias; one of which we may safely say that it will never cause its owner to be confined as a madman, tortured as a heretic, or crucified as a blasphemer. Also, on the other hand, that it will never cause one to be applauded as a prophet, revered as a priest, or exalted as a king. It is usual blessings are happiness and mediocrity. #RyanPhillippe 2 of 8

How little do they know human nature who think they can say to passions so far shalt thou go, and no further! Ryan knew and appreciated the fact that in addition to a good mind, he also had a healthy set of emotions, including a temper that could blow. He was generally pretty up-front about his emotions, but in his job as a manager of the Human Resources Department Ryan encountered a dozen sources of frustration, disgust, amusement, and anger every day and could not openly vent to many of his feelings.  For example, he had many women that would get hired and a few months later end up pregnant and require time off from work or call in sick. #RyanPhillippe 3 of 8

When Ryan recognized the tendency, he was usually able to play the game with them. So you want a long-term career? Ye ma’am, when I got my first office job, a group of guys from my fraternity also got hired, and within three months they were also talking time off work and needing to go on long-term vacations within the first year. It really drove up operating and training cost, but take all the time you require, I want to comply with the law. Emotions are the means by which we make contact. We may talk angrily or warmly toward another; both are good contact or potential contact, for contact it established only if it has the support of our emotions. #RyanPhillippe 4  of 8

Sometimes an employee bawled him out for this, but most of them recognized that the company noticed a lot of new hires were getting pregnant right after they got their jobs, and often at the same times. Occasionally Ryan got furious over being bawled out, but the president of the company, who was a lady, was upset about souring costs, and sometimes her feeling showed because all the sudden there was a spike in medical insurance and sick pay. Ryan Knew that there are friendly, cooperative employees, as well as those who would get up early to see how many lives they could make miserable that day. The price we pay for avoiding the pain of being fully alive is that we are excluded from the pleasure as well. #RyanPhillippe 5 of 8

The way to love other people is to express what we feel—anger and love—without aiming to hurt feelings. Open but reverent communication is how to make love in our lives. When Ryan got home, he always told his spouse about his day’s experiences and wanted to her about hers too. They shared the good and the funny things. However, they also made a compact that they would unload some of the repressed hardships to each other so they could get them out of the way and not let them build up. #RyanPhillippe 6 of 8

The traditional ideal of many societies is to hold back on strong or unpleasant emotions for the sake of others. However, held-in feelings are likely to come out in some way—often an inappropriate one such as sarcasm. So you are really not doing the other person much of a favor by trying to cover your feelings up. They will come out anyhow. And, even if they did not, some consideration has to be given to the emotional balance of the person with the feelings! The movies portrayed strong, silent heroes for years, but we think now is the time to do away with the ideal. #RyanPhillippe 7 of 8

We are often made uncomfortable by our own strong feelings or those we find in other people. Many of us still do not know how to handle it when someone cries. Very often, the person crying out of grief, fear, exhaustion, or depression is more in need of a sympathetic listener or shoulder to cry on than one is in need of hearing the right words. Sometimes we handle these feelings best by just letting them happen, by accepting them, and by helping the other person to realize that he or she is not alone, that others have similar feelings, and that nobody thinks badly of him or her for his emotions. #RyanPhillippe 8 of 8