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#187   + (-15) - [X]

Tagged: service, life, worth

Only a life lived in the service to others is worth living. -- Albert Einstein

#229   + (74) - [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

#109   + (52) - [X]

Tagged: love

Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you. -- Erich Fromm

#211   + (58) - [X]

Tagged: submission, power, humility

Submission can actually engender power: realizing that you have something to give, and that you are capable of mastering your own will to give it up the way your top wants it instead of the way you think S/He should want it, can inspire pride: not the false pride of an inflated ego, but the true pride that, like humility, comes from knowing the depths of your self. -- William Henkin

#60   + (-7) - [X]

Tagged: masochism, sadism

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

#71   + (20) - [X]

Tagged: woman, bitch

Sometimes, being a bitch is all a woman has. -- Stephen King

#8   + (-13) - [X]

Tagged: slavery, trainer

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

#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

#87   + (33) - [X]

Tagged: question, charm, yes

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked a clear question. -- Albert Camus

#126   + (5) - [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

#43   + (37) - [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

#76   + (16) - [X]

Tagged: nature, crime

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

#103   + (254) - [X]

Tagged: proverb, flesh

The flesh is aye fairest that's farthest from the bone. -- Scottish Proverb

#6   + (55) - [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

#151   + (23) - [X]

Tagged: bondage, liberty

Most welcome, bondage, for thou art a way, I think, to liberty. -- William Shakespeare

#46   + (30) - [X]

Tagged: stars, desires

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

#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

#31   + (69) - [X]

Tagged: sexuality, sacrament

Sexuality is a sacrament. -- Starhawk

#48   + (5) - [X]

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

#221   + (26) - [X]

Tagged: erotic

We tend to think of the erotic as an easy, tantalizing sexual arousal. I speak of the erotic as the deepest life force, a force which moves us toward living in a fundamental way. -- Audre Lorde

#67   + (115) - [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

#150   + (107) - [X]

Tagged: pleasure, degradatioin, delight

The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him. Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way. -- Marquis De Sade

#11   + (91) - [X]

Tagged: discipline, life

Without discipline, there's no life at all. -- Katharine Hepburn

#28   + (100) - [X]

Tagged: sex, erotic, life, force

We tend to think of the erotic as an easy, tantalizing sexual arousal. I speak of the erotic as the deepest life force, a force which moves us toward living in a fundamental way. -- Audre Lorde

#145   + (51) - [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

#5   + (44) - [X]

Tagged: find, submissive, question

The single most common question in BDSM is "How do I find a submissive?" -- John Warren, Ph.D

#214   + (50) - [X]

Tagged: torture, pleasure, body

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

#83   + (32) - [X]

Tagged: beauty

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

#21   + (13) - [X]

Tagged: bondage

How blessed am I in this discovering thee
To enter in these bonds is to be free. -- John Donne

#104   + (59) - [X]

Tagged: chains

Chains of iron or of silk-both are chains. -- Friedrich von Schiller

#169   + (27) - [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

#51   + (110) - [X]

Tagged: reality, pain

There was no reality to pain when it left one, though while it held one fast all other realities faded. -- Rachel Field

#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

#45   + (53) - [X]

Tagged: suffer

Always make the audience suffer as much as possible. -- Alfred Hitchcock

#207   + (25) - [X]

Tagged: whips, rhyme, chains, excitement, affection

Sticks and Stones may break my bones but Whips and Chains excite me. So slam me up and throw me down and show me that you like me! -- Unknown

#196   + (-45) - [X]

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

#146   + (115) - [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

#58   + (19) - [X]

Tagged: thorns, roses

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

#172   + (5) - [X]

Tagged: life, vision

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. -- Anais Nin

#80   + (104) - [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

#115   + (46) - [X]

Tagged: sex

In lovemaking, as in other arts, those who do it best can not tell how it is done. -- James M. Barrie

#14   + (43) - [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

#33   + (62) - [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

#183   + (120) - [X]

Tagged: love, ownership, soul, yours

All my soul follows you, love encircles you and I live in being yours. -- Robert Browning

#133   + (38) - [X]

Tagged: dominance, submission

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

#44   + (29) - [X]

Tagged: passions, man

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has not overcome them. -- Carl Jung

#170   + (61) - [X]

Tagged: surrender

Self-conquest is really self-surrender. Yet before we can surrender ourselves we must become ourselves. For no one can give up what he does not possess. -- Thomas Merton

#34   + (50) - [X]

Tagged: sex

I don't know what I am, darling. I've tried several varieties of sex. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic. And the others give me either stiff neck or lockjaw. -- Tallulah Bankhead

#190   + (90) - [X]

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

#19   + (85) - [X]

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

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