Random Quotes
The first and the best victory is to conquer self. -- Plato
Only a life lived in the service to others is worth living. -- Albert Einstein
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has not overcome them. -- Carl Jung
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
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
Tagged: sex, love, vanilla, erotic, s/m
Many vanilla people are surprised to learn that S/M includes erotic spanks, scratches, and bites, which are amazingly common forms of erotic expression. They are also surprised to find out that S/M practitioners can fall in love, and that they enjoy conventional sex acts such as oral sex and intercourse. -- Laura Goodwin
Tagged: love, service, life, calling
I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you. -- Oprah Winfrey
It is certainly no crime to depict the bizarre ideas that nature inspires. -- Marquis De Sade
Sexuality is a sacrament. -- Starhawk
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
Sex is like money; only too much is enough. -- John Updike
Any man that can't find what he is looking for in a thousand women is really looking for a boy. -- Gershon Legman
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: sex, orgasm, penetration
The moment of greatest significance in love-making is not the moment of orgasm. It is rather the moment of entrance, the moment of penetration... This is the moment that shakes us, that has within it the great wonder, tremendous and tremulous as it may be- or disappointing and despairing, which says the same thing from the opposite point of view. -- Rollo May
Tagged: fear
Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn to see fear's path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. -- Frank Herbert
Love well, whip well. -- Benjamin Franklin
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
Tagged: pleasure, surrender, violence
One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater. -- Marquis De Sade
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
There's a fine line between pleasure and pain. Love me like a ball and chain. -- Brian Setzer
A 'working' bottom--one who is actively putting the Top's 'work' to joyful use--has liberty where he or she imagined limits. -- Joseph W. Bean
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Tagged: temptation
Lead me not into temptation,
I can find it just fine myself. -- 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
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
The noblest service comes from nameless hands, And the best servant does his work unseen. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Tagged: possession, giving
"It's in giving yourself that you possess yourself" -- Louise Andreas-Salomé
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. -- Anais Nin
Tagged: bondage
How blessed am I in this discovering thee
To enter in these bonds is to be free. -- John Donne
That which yields is not always weak. -- Jacqueline Carey
I ask for so little. Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave. -- From the movie Labryinth -- David Bowie
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)
Being your slave, what should I do but tend
Upon the hours and times of your desire?
I have no precious time at all to spend,
Nor services to do till you require. -- William Shakespeare
What is my life if I am no longer useful to others. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Tagged: dream, mysterious
A man doesn't dream about a woman because he thinks her "mysterious"; he decides that she is "mysterious" to justify his dreaming of her. -- Henri de Montherlant
And, graven with diamonds, in letters plain/There is written her fair neck round about:/"Noli me tangere", for Caesar's I am;/And wild for to hold, though I seem tame. -- Petrarch
Tagged: submission, respect
True Submission & Servitude is not only a form of Respect, but your natural birthright vocation. It is an obligation of servitude, which you are bound to honour your Mistress.
-- Supreme Mistress KajunTagged: master, fidelity, oath
When Abraham asked Eliezer to swear fidelity, he told him to "place your hand upon my thigh." This was an ancient custom, not some bizarre kink of Abraham's. When taking an oath to a Master, a slave would place his hand upon the Master's thigh near the testicles. Then he would swear to honor his Master's will. -- Master Alan
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
Be careful Anais, abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones. -- Eduardo
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
Tagged: terror, anticipation
There is no terror in the bang ... only in the anticipation of it. -- Alfred Hitchock
Tagged: calling, slave, vocation
Slavehood is a vocation, comparable and equal in every way to any religious calling. -- J. Mikael Togneri
Tagged: sex, life, attractive, philosophy, value
Tell me what a man finds sexually attractive and I will tell you his entire philosophy of life. Show me the woman he sleeps with and I will tell you his valuation of himself..... The man who is proudly certain of his own value, will want the highest type of woman he can find, the woman he admires, the strongest, the hardest to conquer--because only the possession of a heroine will give him the sense of an achievement, not the possession of a brainless slut. -- Ayn Rand
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
Tagged: bondage, discipline, trust
In a sense, you will find that it does not matter what stance you take in bondage and discipline games. Either role done well transcends into the other, and to be done well both require trust. -- Lady Ravinia
Tagged: confidence, knowledge, awareness
Know who and what you are and be confident in that. -- yourdesireismine
To love women and never enjoy them, is as much to love wine and never taste it. -- John Lyly
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
Tagged: woman, protection, man, equal
Woman was created from Man's rib; Not made from His head to top Him; Nor from His feet to be trampled; But from His side to be His equal, Under His arm to be protected, And near His heart to be loved. -- Unknown
