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Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires. -- William Shakespeare
Tagged: leather, spirituality
I have come close enough to know that there is something to the "spiritual" side of leather. -- Jack Rinella
No one but a woman in love ever sees the maximum of men's greatness. -- Anais Nin
Tagged: pleasure
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. -- Jane Austen
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: romance, first love
Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance. -- Oscar Wilde
Tagged: find, submissive, question
The single most common question in BDSM is "How do I find a submissive?" -- John Warren, Ph.D
What is my life if I am no longer useful to others. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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
You have to get past the pleasure stage, until you reach the stage of tears. -- Pauline Reage
Tagged: love
You need somebody to love while you're looking for someone to love. -- Shelagh Delaney
Tagged: master, slave, centered
How does a master center a slave? Being centered is a Zen term that means a person is balanced, calm, healthy, peaceful, grounded, nourished. Some might see it as a relaxed state, one of calm, creative, full of the realization of being well-off, in communion with one's self and one's environment… How does a master center a slave? He does it by creating, with his slave, a right relationship, that is, one in which each is free to be him or herself; one with openness, honesty, and clarity of purpose. Centering comes from having a clear focus, mutual support, encouragement, and purpose. -- Jack Rinella
Tagged: power, influence, lady
Power is like being a lady. . . if you have to tell people you are, you aren't. -- Margaret Thatcher
Tagged: speech, service, heart, compassion
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity. -- Buddha
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
Tagged: chains
Chains of iron or of silk-both are chains. -- Friedrich von Schiller
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. -- Robert Heinlein
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
Tagged: confidence, knowledge, awareness
Know who and what you are and be confident in that. -- yourdesireismine
Tagged: fantasy, reality, nightmare
My fantasy became my reality, just before it became my nightmare -- D.J. Acrey
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
Tagged: love
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you. -- Erich Fromm
To love women and never enjoy them, is as much to love wine and never taste it. -- John Lyly
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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
Free of her lips, free of her hips. -- English Proverb
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
I bend, but I do not break. -- Jean de La Fontaine
When you think night and day and every moment only of pleasing me, things will be very easy for you. -- Anne Rice
Sex is like money; only too much is enough. -- John Updike
Tagged: kneeling
On my knees I think clearer. -- U2
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
There is a chain that binds U/us,
Me to him and him to me,
An end holds the collar, my hand holds an end,
If I tug, he'll feel the pull,
But if he tugs, I'll feel it too...
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
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
That which yields is not always weak. -- Jacqueline Carey
Nobody dies from the lack of sex. It's the lack of love we die from. -- Margaret Atwood
Tagged: possession, giving
"It's in giving yourself that you possess yourself" -- Louise Andreas-Salomé
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
Tagged: kissing
Kissing is man's greatest invention. All animals copulate, but only humans kiss. -- Tom Robbins
A woman's "No" is said with one mouth only. -- Proverb
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
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: 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
The slave escapes her bonds to find a stronger set of chains. -- Anonymous
Sexuality is a sacrament. -- Starhawk
Narcissism is the art of looking in the mirror and saying 'Damn I'd like to have sex with me.' -- Anonymous
Ultimately, the purpose of a flogging is to inflict pleasure. -- Mitch Kessler
You gave me the key of your heart, my love; Then why did you make me knock?" "Oh that was yesterday, saints above! And last night- I changed the lock! -- John Boyle O'Reilly
If loving you makes a slave of me, then I'll spend my whole life in chains. -- Sophie B. Hawkins
