Acronyms

BETA - Belief, Emotion, Thoughts, Action

BATD- Beta, Alpha, Theta, Delta

SWAT - Surrender, Willingness, Acceptance, Trust

women quotes

A girl should be 2 things, classy & fabulous - Gabrielle Coco Chanel

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with 7 chords-philosophy, art, poetry, politics, love, scandal and the weather - Anna Brownwell Jameson, 19th century art critic

Expert the worse and you wont be dissappointed -Helen Macinnes, espionage expert

Sometimes I think no matter how hard I work, it'll be attributed to how I look-Gloria Steinem

Men always say the most important thing in a woman is a sense of humour. You know what that means? He's looking for someone to laugh at his jokes- Sheila Wenz, member of comedy club

If you educate a man, you educate a person. If you educate a woman, you educate a family- Ruby Manikan

It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned- Leslie Jeanne Sahler

“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”- Helen Keller

We always think that when we're in love,that it is like nobody else's love, but I suspect we're more like everyone else at those times than at any other - Elizabeth Jane Howard

To be meek, patient, tactful,, modest, honorable, brave is not to be either manly or womanly, it is to be humane - Jane Harrison

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime- Mignon McLaughlin

Life beats down and crushes the soul, and art reminds you that you have one- Stella Adler

The things we hate about ourselves arent more real than the things we like about ourselves- Ellen Goodman

War is the ultimate male ego trip- Barbara J Walker, humanist heroine

Experience - a comb life gives you after you lose your hair- Judith Stern

The first victory is the avoidance of war- Indra Gandhi

My mother is sixty and her whole life she only slept with 1 guy & she wont tell me who- wendy Liebman

My mother said that I wont amount to anything as I procrastinate and I said "Just wait"

I am a woman of very few words, but lots of action- Mae West, female trouble

The secret of getting ahead is getting started- Sue Parton

Girls who collect man like postage stamps always get the wrong sort- Sophie Tucker

In America, you can get away with murder but with sex - Xaviera Hollander

The advantage of love at 1st sight is that it delays the 2nd sight-Natalie Clifford

I love it when I get whistled by Builders. If they dont, I will walk past again until they do- Su Pollard

Changing husband is only changing troubles- Kathleen Noris

YOur character is who you are when the lights are out- Julie Bowen

The happy people are failures as they are on such good terms with themselves that they dont give a damn- Agatha Christie

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure" Marianne Williamson

Please dont retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them

I have enough crow's feet to start a bird sanctuary

People who think money can do anything may be suspected of doing anything for money - Mary Pettibone Poole

It isnt that gentleman really prefer blonde. It's just that we look dumber- Anita Loos

Nothing buy happiness but money can certainly hire it for short periods- Irma Kurtz

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly than wise people for their wisdom- Elizabeth Gaskell

The failure to find a marriageable man means the delicious prolongation of a late female adolescence: free & voluptuous, self-absorbed and female centred - Candace Bushnell

How did I meet Mick. You know I always find that an offensive question. If you are intelligent and pretty, you can meet anyone you want to - Bianca Jagger

I crave nothing but constant love & attention - Fay Weldon

Security is mostly a superstition- Helen Keller

I had been fed in my youth a lot of old wives' tales about the way men would instantly forsake a beautiful woman to flock around a brilliant one. It is but fair to say that after getting out in the world, I had never seen this happen - Dorothy Parker

The trouble with life is that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers! Ruth Benedict

Anger is its own excuse and its own reward -Anne Rivers Siddons

If I have learned anything, I owe it neither ti precepts nor to books but to a few opportune misfortunes - Louise Honorine de Choiseul

Although they are only breath, words which I command are immortal- Sappho

The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it cant be done- Mary Frances Berry

After eating chocolate, you feel godlike,as though you can conquer enemies, lead armies, entice lovers - Emily Luchetti

There are only 3 colours, 10 digits and 7 notes: It's what we do with them that's important -Ruth Ross

Fashion is about eventually being naked- Vivienne Westwood

I never practice, I always play -Wanda Landowska

"If we dont change, we dont grow. If we dont grow, we arent really living" - Gail Sheehy

No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity - Edith Wharton

A spark between 2 people can lead to a short circuit - Amanda Marteleur

I am an ocean as I am really deep

Your silence will not protect you - Audre Lorde

It's not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover -Marge Piercy

People who are not interested in food always seem rather dry and unloving and dont have a real gusto for life- Julia Child

the world..

As Henry Miller said, "The world is not to be put in order, the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order."

Life is a daring adventure

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." – Helen Keller


"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."--Anais Nin

Learning..

"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read or write,
but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn." ~Alvin Toffler

Dreams- Jung & Freud

Carl Jung: Dreams: channels through which unconscious enters consciousness. Message from the unconscious-aims at our well-being & wholeness, contain secret of life meaning. Dream symbols: expressive & impressive..expression of what's going on at an unconscious level of psyche; & make an impression, leave imprint , influencing direction of dreamer's personal development from that moment on. Active imagination to associate; individuation process, religion is therapeutic.

Jung:

Psychological types:

(1) attitudinal (2 types extrovert & introvert)

(2) functional (4 types: Thinking, intuitive, feeling,sensational)

Persona;

The unconscious : reasons cannot reveal the truth about yourself. it imagines & speculates. Pure consciousness perceives reality directly, knows things themselves, experientially. Consciousness & unconscious to come together as equal partners. Personal unconscious & collective unconscious

Individuation: self realization stages:

(1) The shadow

(2) anima animus :soul image (anima- male/feminine aspect of male psyche; animus- female/masculine aspect)

(3) mana

(4) the self

Freud: Dreams are expression of the gratification of sexual desire, free association, religion is neuroses

Subconscious: Id (instinct) & SuperEgo (moral)

Conscious: Ego

Ego defences

(1) Repression

(2) Regression

(3) Projection

(4) Rationalisation

(5) Compensation

(6) Sublimation

(7) Displacement

(8) Identification

(9) Reaction - Formation : Life instinct (Eros) and Death instinct (Thanatos)

(10) Symptoms

(11) Neuroses and psychoses

Tao Te ching

"Knowing others is intelligence,
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength,
mastering yourself is true power.
If you realize that you have enough,
you are truly rich."
Tao te Ching