The World smiles when you smile. My heart and waiting and waiting. One cannot lead a life that is truly excellent without feeling that one belongs to something greater and more permanent than oneself. Each person’s birth makes ripples that expand in the social environment: parents, siblings, relatives, and friends are affected by it, and as we grow up our actions leave a myriad of consequences, some intended, other are not. Great advances brought about by technology and science are so heavily depended on that we are in danger of completely forgetting our allegiance to the community and to spiritual values. Individualism and materialism should not prevail over essential aspects of common good, appreciation for religion, art, and other ineffable aspects of life. People have to know when to be industrious and when to give tender feelings. Life is not all about money and status. #RyanPhillippe 1 of 9

Bitterness and love created the day, it makes us understand life and feelings, and sometimes strange ideas come to me. I am shy and want to express my deep hidden feelings. When we look at our lives, we will see the residual of past life crises which are still on our minds. Thoughts and feeling about the events tend to occur and color our perception, and they even inhibit us so much that we start to experience limitations in other parts of our lives. Is it worth paying the continuing cost of reliving the past? No. Therefore, to heal emotionally, once it has passed, place the major event in a different context so that we can see it from a different perspective with an altered significance and meaning. You are obviously a victim of painful emotions. #RyanPhillippe 2 of 9

It is not my fate to spend my life regretting the past nor fearing the future. Life does not have to be painful. I have to learn to take on a different attitude about the past difficulties and trauma so that I can acknowledge the hidden gift in it. This suffering is my opportunity to achieve inner triumph, as everything can be taken away, but I can always choose my attitude in any given set of circumstances. Life gives us all the chance to grow and these past events may have taught me something that I was required to learn, and as painful as it was, that was the only way it could be brought into experience, even if it was traumatic to the conscious mind and body. Passing through a life crisis makes us more human, more compassionate, more accepting, and understanding of ourselves and others.  #RyanPhillippe 3 of 9

Law and the police struggles against violations. Everyone possess the opportunity to steal. Among savages nearly everywhere it is a taboo which binds the members of the clan together and ensures that they shall behave one to another in a decently social manner. We have lost the word, but we have the bond under our names. Social opinion makes me strongly opposed to capital punishment and to any form of vengeance wreaked on the criminal. It is my belief that the real deterrent against crime is social opinion. It is not the police nor the laws. It is the healthy public opinion which affects and surrounds a man from his youth. In other words, it is the existence of taboos which keep many obeying the rules of the land.  #RyanPhillippe 4 of 9

The word savagery, now that we know more about savages, is losing it old meaning. For the most part, I have known savages well and savages are gentlemen. They have a moral code and there is no supernatural sense of morality; the fear of hurting the feelings of one’s fellow men is the real moral sanction, though it is associated with, as minor motives, the fear of retaliation and, still more, the fear of public reprobation, and death. It is the sympathetic sanction, as it involves a constant consideration for all the members of one’s sympathy-group. It is indeed, only the existence of such taboos which enable us to possess any sacredness of personality at all. The words you threw behind when you left has rippled the serenity and brought about some mysterious dream to my heart. #RyanPhillippe 5 of 9

Handling an emotional crisis leads to greater wisdom and results in lifetime benefits. It is not facts that we fear, but our feelings about them. Once we have a mastery over our feelings, our fear of life diminishes. We feel a greater self-confidence, and we are wiling to take greater chances because we now feel that we can handle the emotional consequences or benefits, whatever they may be. Because fear is the bass of all inhibitions, mastery over fear means the unblocking of whole avenues of life experience that previously had been avoided. One benefit from a life crisis is greater self-awareness.  My body still has your temperature. My pluses run your bloods. My personality has your prints. My thoughts have your wisdom. Thank you, it is you who bred me and brought me up. #RyanPhillippe 6 of 9

It is taboos that preserve our more refined sensibilities from the people who wipe their mouths wit the tablecloth and blow their noses with the serviette, and it is taboos that preserve us from being murdered outright, as some rich men like to play a game of hostile with the lives of others. If we were objects of complete indifference to our fellows, or of no more concern than stone trees, we should soon be driven up to or over the verge of suicide. Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by an almost instinctive network of taboos. We know that they will allow us the same or nearly the same degree of freedom and privilege that they claim for themselves.  #RyanPhillippe 7 of 9

Because of taboos, if we take our place in a queue at a railway station or a theatre, others will not thrust themselves in front of us; if we elect a mayor, he will not torture members of the human population nor put a multimillion dollar colosseum over the needs of the people and the entire city; if we claim a seat by placing our suitcase on it, people will not fling the article aside and place themselves there; if they desire to perform any of the intimate natural excretory function which are commonly regarded as disgusting, they will not spontaneously do it before our faces and giggle like it is cute; if—to come to the sphere with which taboos are to-day for most persons specially associated—they chance to experience an impulse of sexual attraction they will not lay lustful hands on us but either conceal their feeling or strive to find delicate methods of expressing it.  #RyanPhillippe 8 of 9

No published laws and regulations—even when such exist—are required to restrain them. They are held back by almost instinctive taboos. I endorse the observations recently made that manners, especially among the young and middle aged (25-60), did indeed incline to be rough and ready as the too much and the too little discipline of the War time took to shaking down together; but the patient and self-effacing elder seems now to be reaping his reward in the new gentleness, new consideration, new attention to social forms and refinements of behavior which he cannot help observing among his young acquaintance. A for their morals, it is certain that any man who was even suspected of committing the offenses which the Restoration gallant and the Regency bucks made a boast would be cut by everyone.  #RyanPhillippe 9 of 9