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#67   + (113) - [X]

Tagged: life, heart, surrender, pain

Sometimes what seems like surrender isn't surrender at all. It's about what's going on in our hearts. About seeing clearly the way life is and accepting it and being true to it, whatever the pain, because the pain of not being true to it is far, far greater. -- Nicholas Evans

#61   + (48) - [X]

Tagged: sensation, pain

The great object of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even though in pain. -- Lord Byron

#99   + (87) - [X]

Tagged: love, life, candle

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

#179   + (16) - [X]

Tagged: breasts, whip, walk, undies

I now know how to walk around properly in my undies. People would keep telling me to push my tits out! I also now know how to use a whip on people without causing bruising. -- Billie Piper

#8   + (-18) - [X]

Tagged: slavery, trainer

Everyone is a potential naked slave to you once you become a trainer. -- Anne Rice

#137   + (122) - [X]

Tagged: life, journey, destiny

The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being. -- Dag Hammarskjold

#135   + (1) - [X]

Tagged: submission, slavery

Submissives need to be told what to do. Slaves need to do what they are told. -- Unknown

#216   + (33) - [X]

Tagged: love, voice, silence

Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away; and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart. -- Robert Sexton

#12   + (43) - [X]

Tagged: service, life, joy

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

#193   + (0) - [X]

Tagged: edge, explanation

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. -- Hunter S. Thompson

#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

#165   + (-11) - [X]

Tagged: joy, happiness

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#143   + (13) - [X]

Tagged: 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

#78   + (77) - [X]

Tagged: speech, service, heart, compassion

A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity. -- Buddha

#146   + (116) - [X]

Tagged: d/s, paradox

D/s is filled with similar paradox's. Such as Pain/pleasure. Enslavement/freedom. A circular and connected balance to exist between apparent opposites. -- Master Nik

#171   + (-14) - [X]

Tagged: love, sensation, masochist

The Masochist desires to experience stronger sensations, but desires that it should be inflicted with Love. The Sadist desires to inflict stronger sensations, but desires that it should be felt as Love. -- Unknown

#16   + (56) - [X]

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

#212   + (35) - [X]

Tagged: submission, permission, right

You are no one's slave, dog, slut, or sub until you give them that right. Only you can give it. No one can take or assume it without your permission. -- Jack Rinella

#64   + (-4) - [X]

Tagged: whipping

Whipping is fifty percent show and noise. -- Anne Rice

#128   + (25) - [X]

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

#92   + (82) - [X]

Tagged: love, life

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#160   + (83) - [X]

Tagged: dominance, love

Love does not dominate; it cultivates. -- Goethe

#129   + (85) - [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

#206   + (23) - [X]

Tagged: confidence, knowledge, awareness

Know who and what you are and be confident in that. -- yourdesireismine

#162   + (4) - [X]

Tagged: love, leather, chaos, war

I urge you all today, especially today during these times of chaos and war, to love yourself without reservations and to love each other without restraint. Unless you're into leather. And then, by all means, use restraints. -- Margaret Cho

#142   + (-17) - [X]

Tagged: thorns, roses

Instead of complaining that rose bushes have thorns, rejoice that thorn bushes bloom. -- Unknown

#145   + (55) - [X]

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

#163   + (-47) - [X]

Tagged: life, journey, destiny

The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being. -- Dag Hammarskjold

#101   + (22) - [X]

Tagged: love, eyes

The eyes are the silent tongues of love. -- Miguel de Cervantes

#13   + (46) - [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

#214   + (50) - [X]

Tagged: torture, pleasure, body

The body is both a pleasure palace and a torture chamber. -- Charles Levin

#133   + (38) - [X]

Tagged: dominance, submission

It's the submissives that show to others what type of Dom owns them. -- Anonymous

#62   + (9) - [X]

Tagged: love, whip

Love well, whip well. -- Benjamin Franklin

#95   + (-18) - [X]

Tagged: passions, womanhood

You have opened up the prison gates of my womanhood. And all the passion that was unsatisfied in me for so many years, leaped into a wild reckless storm boundless as the sea. -- Emma Goldman

#80   + (106) - [X]

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

#102   + (-18) - [X]

Tagged: orgasm, fake, failure, injustice

Women fake orgasm if they really care about the man because they don't want him to feel a sense of failure. I think it's really a kind thing that women do. But they're probably doing themselves an injustice, because probably, if they could get over it, if they didn't fake it, and they learned how to relax, they would probably have their orgasm. Some men aren't good enough to give it to you. -- Annie Flanders

#140   + (45) - [X]

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

#50   + (-45) - [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

#30   + (49) - [X]

Tagged: force, heart, sexual urges

Feelings that originate in the human genitalia are among the most powerful forces on earth. They have a complex relationship with the feelings that stem from the human heart; at various times in competition or in harmony... One of the supreme goals of spiritual work is to harness the sexual urges in service to the heart's wisdom. -- Rob Brezsny

#41   + (32) - [X]

Tagged: terror, anticipation

There is no terror in the bang ... only in the anticipation of it. -- Alfred Hitchock

#220   + (22) - [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

#169   + (30) - [X]

Tagged: submission, bondage

I'm not averse to being tied up - I like a man to take charge. There's something very sexy about being submissive. -- Eva Longoria

#31   + (72) - [X]

Tagged: sexuality, sacrament

Sexuality is a sacrament. -- Starhawk

#3   + (22) - [X]

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

#70   + (31) - [X]

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

#90   + (10) - [X]

Tagged: woman, man, clothes, fantasies

What a man enjoys about a woman's clothes are his fantasies of how she would look without them. -- Brendan Francis

#76   + (13) - [X]

Tagged: nature, crime

It is certainly no crime to depict the bizarre ideas that nature inspires. -- Marquis De Sade

#29   + (25) - [X]

Tagged: abnormal, pleasures

Be careful Anais, abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones. -- Eduardo

#43   + (41) - [X]

Tagged: torture, heart

The only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure. -- Marquis De Sade

#149   + (81) - [X]

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

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