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Tagged: love, suffer, understanding
To suffer in love is to completely understand it.
-- Dr. Justin HaleNarcissism is the art of looking in the mirror and saying 'Damn I'd like to have sex with me.' -- Anonymous
That which yields is not always weak. -- Jacqueline Carey
The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there. -- Betty Grable
Sometimes, being a bitch is all a woman has. -- Stephen King
Tagged: bdsm, experience
You can read a hundred books and cruise a thousand websites and chatrooms, but it will not equal one hour of real-time BDSM experience. -- Sensuous Sadie
Tagged: slavery, path, crawling
The path to slavery is so narrow that two cannot walk upon it at the same time, hence why the slave must crawl behind. -- Unknown
No kind of sensation is keener and more active than pain it's impressions are unmistakable. -- Marquis De Sade
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain. -- Edmund Spenser
Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough. -- Mary McLeod Bethune
Tagged: life
Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. -- Anais Nin
Tagged: kissing
Some women blush when they are kissed; some call for the police; some swear; some bite; but the worst are those who laugh. -- Anonymous
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
Sex is like money; only too much is enough. -- John Updike
Yes, this was love, the ridiculous bounding of the buttocks and the wilding of the poor, insignificant moist little penis. -- D.H. Lawrence
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
The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands. -- Benjamin Franklin
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
Tagged: leader, woman, possessed
I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his desire, his life, his work, his sexuality the touchstone, the command, my pivot. I don't mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated. I don't mind being told to stand on my own feet, not to cling all that I am capable of doing but I am going to be pursued, fucked, possessed by the will of a male at his time, his bidding. -- Anais Nin
To say that you can love one person all your life is like saying that one candle will continue to burn as long as you live. -- Leo Tolstoy
Tagged: spanking, torture, poetry
Look, if you want to torture me, spank me, lick me, do it. But if this poetry shit continues just shoot me now please. -- Lori Petty
Tagged: reality, experience, alive
...what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive. -- Joseph Campbell
Tagged: d/s
For me, D/s is a graded endeavor. There are definitive levels of achievement. There is an unacceptable level of performance. Effort is not enough to make the grade. -- Sir C
The only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure. -- Marquis De Sade
Tagged: dominance
In the beginning I was fooled by Dominants who were good looking, had charisma, dressed well, and had that "dominant" personae. I soon realized that these things are easy to fashion. Real Dominance is a deep and visceral thing, something that has nothing to do with the trappings of BDSM. -- Sensuous Sadie
Love does not dominate; it cultivates. -- Goethe
Tagged: pleasure
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. -- Jane Austen
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
Be careful Anais, abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones. -- Eduardo
Tagged: find, submissive, question
The single most common question in BDSM is "How do I find a submissive?" -- John Warren, Ph.D
Tagged: suffer
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible. -- Alfred Hitchcock
Tagged: sex, art, erotic, philosophical
BSDM is an erotic art which does not require conventional sex acts to explore and practice. That's my philosophical story, and I'm stickin' to it. -- Elizabeth
Thou art to me a delicious torment. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires. -- William Shakespeare
The flesh is aye fairest that's farthest from the bone. -- Scottish Proverb
Only a life lived in the service to others is worth living. -- Albert Einstein
Tagged: love, ownership, soul, yours
All my soul follows you, love encircles you and I live in being yours. -- Robert Browning
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. -- Rabindranath Tagore
Tagged: leather, spirituality
I have come close enough to know that there is something to the "spiritual" side of leather. -- Jack Rinella
Tagged: power exchange, Dom Space, transcendence
This notion is at least one explanation of what we call the power exchange. It is also the reason that so many of us feel the sharp focus of illumination as we come away from a successful scene. DomSpace is less physical than the experience of subspace and considerably subtler, but it is every bit as powerful as the experience of subspace. So, what we are after in this exceptional act of passion and cruelty we call a scene is that oneness, that transcendence which is the same goal as religion, which is the same goal as vanilla sex. -- Rick Umbaugh
Tagged: desire, woman, man, want
When I am dead, you'll find it hard, says he
To ever find another like me.
What makes you think, as I suppose you do,
I'll ever want another man like you? -- Eugene T. Ware
Tagged: ritual, protocol, essential
Ritual is important. It is fulfilling and meaningful. It is beautiful. It is symbolic, mnemonic, and instructive. It establishes protocols. It expresses, defines, and clarifies conditions. It is essential to, and ingredient within, civilization. Similarly, do not overlook the significance and value of symbolism." Vagabonds of Gor -- -- John Norman
If loving you makes a slave of me, then I'll spend my whole life in chains. -- Sophie B. Hawkins
Tagged: pain, understanding
And he said, 'Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain. -- Khalil Gibran
Tagged: breasts
A full bosom is actually a millstone around a woman's neck... [Breasts] are not parts of a person but lures slung around her neck, to be kneaded and twisted like magic putty, or mumbled and mouthed like lolly ices. -- Germaine Greer
There was no reality to pain when it left one, though while it held one fast all other realities faded. -- Rachel Field
Tagged: power, aphrodisiac
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. -- Henry Kissinger
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Tagged: bdsm, religious doctrine, opposition
BDSM appears to stand in opposition to much religious doctrine (speaking primarily to the Christian doctrines here), and there are aspects on the extreme fringes that in fact are in opposition to direct religious teachings. I said 'appears' for a very good reason. In fact, a large percentage of the spiritual teachings parallel the basic premises of D/s. -- Mistress Steel
Tagged: service, protection, safety
I am your servant. I shall not be free. You will protect me; you will keep me safe; you will guard me. You will keep me sound; you will protect me from every demon. -- Ancient Egyptian woman's slave contract
