To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion. Although when healing, we seek to pull behavior patterns away from the lopsided outer ring of the behavioral circle and move them closer toward the functioning center. Personal feeling is not always in the wrong if you boil it down to the impressions which make it simply an opinion. The feelings of the human heart are as different as the tinctures of the skin. We all have times when we need and want to be close and taken care of by others.  No wonder that one idle fellow should love another. #RyanPhillippe 1 of 7

The gifts of God are to be enjoyed, when the Giver is remembered. There are some feelings which are too tender to be suffered by the World and that is why there are times when an individual also wants to be left alone and not bothered by others because we feel critical and skeptical about what is going on. Why should a man so carelessly cast himself, by giving heed to a stranger? We appeal to proper anger against what is happening. Such a balancing fosters more fully functioning. Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.  #RyanPhillippe 2 of 7

The best of happiness is mine—the power and the will to be useful. My son lay in bed at my house. In preceding months, his life had grown deeply disturbing: unrelieved agony, constant confusion, the indignity of utter helplessness, and the aggravation of aggressive concern on his part to be self-sufficient canceled by his inability to be trusted to take care of anything. In an especially poignant episode, I found him crawling around in the bed agitatedly searching among the covers. When I asked what he wanted, he replied, “I am looking for my lost self.”  #RyanPhillippe 3 of 7

SECRETS AND LIES

The fear of growing up can turn into a nightmare. Even if one is doing well, when a person is not living up to their expectations, one knows one is not oneself. Like that of my son, even in that pathetic condition of having lost his centeredness (I think he got an F in Economics) one is enough oneself to realize that one is not oneself. Transitioning into adulthood is a reality that comes to all. It represents the beginning of the accumulated continuity of time and living. Though growing up comes to all, it is not the same for all.  #RyanPhillippe 4 of 7

Becoming an adult symbolizes the most exaggerated pain of the freedom that youth have been fighting for since they were toddlers. No more Steak and Shake with Jay Dee. When a person finally becomes an adult, it is all too obvious that adulthood is all too limiting, all too tragically pathetic. To be aged is to have to face the prospect of possibly being held responsible for anything that goes wrong and to have to be financially responsible. You are no longer living off of daddy’s checking account, you have to make your own money, pay your own rent and insurance and buy your own clothes.  #RyanPhillippe 5 of 7

Until recently, becoming an adult was exciting, but all we hear about is corruption, rising rents, and that it will take two jobs just to make rent. A conspiracy of silence-curtained the youth, the brave, the “oppressed.” As just starting out, young people have often been condemned to poverty, decrepitude apartments, wretchedness from friends, and despair for the economy. Age now divides people into good versus bad as ruthlessly as ethnicity and gender has. Ageism has been added to racism and sexism. #RyanPhillippe 6 of 7

Growing up can be scary, there is no safety net, no one to pick you up if you fall. Without a saving account, if you get sick at work and have not made it through the probation period, you can get fired and end up homeless. Unfortunate events may happen in life. No mockery in this World ever sounds so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. It does not good to go through life frustrating others because of his insecurities. Babies cry when something is wrong, until they discovered they have learned to speak, and then they can voice their concerns. Life is about adapting. #RyanPhillippe 7 of 7