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#184   + (4) - [X]

Tagged: trust, live

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#121   + (462) - [X]

Tagged: pleasure, pain

And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain. -- Edmund Spenser

#40   + (54) - [X]

Tagged: love, mistress

No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful. -- Marquis De Sade

#83   + (28) - [X]

Tagged: beauty

Beauty isn't everything! But then what is? -- Sanford Wilson

#110   + (46) - [X]

Tagged: kissing

Kissing is man's greatest invention. All animals copulate, but only humans kiss. -- Tom Robbins

#203   + (59) - [X]

Tagged: slave, serve, always

The wonder of being a slave, as you put it, isn't that we serve when it suits us but rather that we serve always. -- Unknown

#50   + (-46) - [X]

Tagged: whipping, song

Sometimes I feel, like I've been tied to the whippin' post.
Oh Lord, I feel like I'm dying.
-- The Allman Brothers

#60   + (-9) - [X]

Tagged: masochism, sadism

A masochist walked up to a sadist, and said 'Hurt me'. The sadist said 'No' and walked away. -- Unknown

#32   + (451) - [X]

Tagged: intimacy, vulnerable

Intimacy is based on shared vulnerability...nothing deepens intimacy like the experiences that we share when we feel flayed, with our skins off, scared and vulnerable, and our partner is there with us, willing to share in the scary stuff -- Dossie Easton & Catherine A. Liszt

#7   + (44) - [X]

Tagged: religion, currupt, virtue

How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart! -- Marquis De Sade

#24   + (-11) - [X]

Tagged: bondage, familiar

Once you familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage, you prepare your own limbs to wear them. -- Abraham Lincoln

#198   + (-2) - [X]

Tagged: submission, masochism, gifts, power exchange

A submissive washing dishes for his dominant, knowing that each soap bubble, each swirl of water is a gift, an honoring, may feel the humming resonance of a hunger, partially satisfied, deep in his spirit. A domme, caught up in the meditative precision of tying each knot precisely *so*, may feel an echo of cathedral walls around her, each motion guiding her, and those around her closer to the God they seek. A masochist, floating in the scintillations of painwaves as the whip falls against her time and time again, may begin to feel their cadence as the cadence of prayer. A hesitant sadist may, with the first hissing of his partner's breath, begin to understand the transformative power he wields with his strap. -- Unknown

#189   + (40) - [X]

Tagged: discipline, wisdom, fools

Fools despise wisdom and discipline. -- Proverbs 1:7

#156   + (46) - [X]

Tagged: sexuality

Sexuality is not a leisure or part-time activity. It is a way of being. -- Alexander Lowen

#194   + (37) - [X]

Tagged: wisdom, lead, mind

If he is indeed wise, he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind. -- Kahlil Gibran

#58   + (17) - [X]

Tagged: thorns, roses

There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them. -- Marquis De Sade

#229   + (71) - [X]

Tagged: slavery, master, slave, gift

A Master has to master the mind of His slave and not to torment her body - only then He's worth the most precious gift that was given to Him - the slave herself! -- Sir Peter Mclaughlin

#2   + (-2) - [X]

Tagged: slavery, chains

The slave escapes her bonds to find a stronger set of chains. -- Anonymous

#38   + (86) - [X]

Tagged: torture, pleasure

Thou art to me a delicious torment. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

#126   + (3) - [X]

Tagged: sex

Sex contains all, bodies, souls,
Meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, results, promulgations,
Songs, commands, health, pride, the maternal mystery, the seminal milk,
All hopes benefactions, bestowals, all the passions, loves, beauties, delights of the earth. -- Walt Whitman

#174   + (-8) - [X]

Tagged: discipline, freedom, goal

Discipline gives total freedom; it allows you to go beyond limitations, to break through boundaries and reach the highest goal. -- Chidvilasananda

#79   + (54) - [X]

Tagged: soul, diamond

Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough. -- Mary McLeod Bethune

#161   + (88) - [X]

Tagged: strength, confidence, time

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time. -- Anna Freud

#231   + (10) - [X]

Tagged: submission, consent, control, dynamic, illusion

The Power exchange that occurs within a D/s dynamic is essentially an illussion! The submissive always retains the power of consent, and the only power the Dominant truly has are those gifted to them by their submissive, and only within the confines of that negotiagted dynamic. -- Father Mark (bdsmgallery.org)

#20   + (-8) - [X]

Tagged: kneeling

On my knees I think clearer. -- U2

#22   + (16) - [X]

Tagged: bondage

If ever thou be'st bound in thy scarf and beaten, thou shalt find what it is to be proud of thy bondage. -- William Shakespeare

#14   + (48) - [X]

Tagged: service, reward

Do not be like servants who serve their masters expecting to receive a reward; be rather like servants who serve their master unconditionally, with no thought of reward. -- Antigonus of Sokho

#147   + (77) - [X]

Tagged: leather, spirituality

I have come close enough to know that there is something to the "spiritual" side of leather. -- Jack Rinella

#120   + (31) - [X]

Tagged: sex, orgasm, myth

The modern erotic ideal: man and woman in loving sexual embrace experiencing simultaneous orgasm through genital intercourse. This is psychiatric-sexual myth useful in forcing feelings of sexual inadequacy and personal inferiority. It is also a rich source of "psychiatric patients. -- Thomas Szasz

#144   + (55) - [X]

Tagged: ritual, fear, pain, lust

There are rituals of lust and joy and pain and fear. These, forced to extremes, meld in the mind, and in that melding they may make or dissolve our egos, bodies, or spirits. -- Raven Greywalker (Lilith)

#188   + (111) - [X]

Tagged: responsibility, control, trust, worth

To have someone give you control of their bodies and minds,
to be entrusted with the responsibility to take care of them,
to have someone willing to suffer for you,
to forsake pride and dignity to please you...
what other gift in this world can possibility equate to that?
And more importantly, what makes you worthy to receive it? -- Anonymous

#46   + (29) - [X]

Tagged: stars, desires

Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires. -- William Shakespeare

#6   + (53) - [X]

Tagged: master, words, slave

We are the masters of words we've never spoken and the slaves of the ones we have. -- Sandra West Prowell

#220   + (21) - [X]

Tagged: tea, happiness

Tea! thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid,... thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wind-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate.  -- ~Colley Cibber, Lady's Last Stake

#33   + (64) - [X]

Tagged: bedroom, horses

It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the street and frighten the horses. -- Mrs. Patrick Campbell

#228   + (13) - [X]

Tagged: masochism, sadism, transformation

In the absence of light there is only darkness and in the eyes of a True Sadist pleasure and pain are one in same. It is through pain that the True Sadist is Born and thrives, be it through the creation of physical, emotional. It is in this that One finds Their greatest joy. It is though the discovery of the pleasure of pain, the knowlage that it is His pleasure that a masochist is born and thrives. With Me, Sadism is not an area where there is grey, things are either black or white -- DarkSadistLust

#9   + (25) - [X]

Tagged: master, hands

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands. -- Benjamin Franklin

#186   + (47) - [X]

Tagged: service, good, nature, peace, success

If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day. -- Alex Noble

#180   + (35) - [X]

Tagged: dominance, consent, bottom, job

The number one job of the dominant is to continually seduce consent
from the bottom. -- Joseph Bean

#199   + (94) - [X]

Tagged: calling, slave, vocation

Slavehood is a vocation, comparable and equal in every way to any religious calling. -- J. Mikael Togneri

#17   + (36) - [X]

Tagged: submission, kneeling

There are a hundred ways to kneel and kiss the ground. -- Rumi

#62   + (11) - [X]

Tagged: love, whip

Love well, whip well. -- Benjamin Franklin

#129   + (87) - [X]

Tagged: sex, art

Narcissism is the art of looking in the mirror and saying 'Damn I'd like to have sex with me.' -- Anonymous

#164   + (-22) - [X]

Tagged: love, happiness

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. -- Robert Heinlein

#119   + (90) - [X]

Tagged: orgasm

I was in bed one night when my boyfriend Ernie said, "How come you never tell me when you're having an orgasm?" I said to him, "Ernie, you're never around. -- Bette Midler

#13   + (44) - [X]

Tagged: dominance, submission, will

Submission depends on the individual's ability to align his will with that of the dominant and use his intelligence to fulfill her wishes gracefully and efficiently. -- Christina Abernathy

#10   + (16) - [X]

Tagged: service, pleasing

When you think night and day and every moment only of pleasing me, things will be very easy for you. -- Anne Rice

#81   + (11) - [X]

Tagged: love, woman

No one but a woman in love ever sees the maximum of men's greatness. -- Anais Nin

#204   + (50) - [X]

Tagged: submission

Submission is not about being used, submission is about being of use. submission is not about what is done to you, submission is about what you do for others " "Strong men simply need women. This will never be understood by weak men. A strong man needs a woman at his feet, who is truly his. Anything else is less than his fulfillment. -- Unknown

#182   + (69) - [X]

Tagged: service, worth, price, work, self-sacrifice

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice--no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service. -- John Burroughs

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