Some Quotes to ponder

"you give little when you give of your posessions, it is when you give of yourself that you truly give."  Kahlil Gibran-The Prophet   "Your desire; my pleasure Your need; my heat Your love; my life"   Anonymous     "When a truly strong woman faces her desire and surrenders control it is highly prized. My goal is to support that strength, make it even more likely that the act of surrender is viewed positively, an affirmation that desire to kneel does not make one weak or stupid. I bend steel, but it is still steel and it remains unbroken. Stronger, perhaps, than it was before the fire of the Forge." Anonymous "A Master does not make someone submit. A Master allows the submissive that was always there, to come out and know they will be loved and cherished for the gift they give. Just as the petals of a rose can not be forced open, but with care and love it will gladly open and share its beauty. So must a submissive be treated, to allow the petals of her submission to open and bloom. The best toy a Top has, is His/Her Own mind." Anonymous "A slave has the last two words in any argument...'yes, Master'"   Author unknown And He whispered to me in the darkness as W/we lay together, "Tell Me where to touch you so that I can drive you insane, tell Me where to touch you to give you ultimate pleasure, tell Me where to touch you so that W/we will truly own E/each O/other." And i kissed Him softly and whispered back, "Touch my mind." Anonymous "Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thought nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keeping what is worth keeping, and with a breath ofkindness, blow the rest away." Anonymous Shoshone   "Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear." Amelia Earhart "To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything" Bernadette Devlin "The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to Another that we truly live" E. Andrus "We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it more. A straw or feather sustains itself long in the air." A. Swetchine "Power is strength and the ability to see yourself through your own eyes and not through the eyes of another. It is being able to place a circle of power at your own feet and not take power from someone else's circle." Lynn V. Andrews "There is nothing so unequal as the equal treatment of unequals. Individualize your leadership." Anonymous "Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self knowledge if we explore them." Marilyn French "You don't have to be afraid of change. You don't have to worry about what has been taken away. Just look to see what's been added." Jackie Greer "There is something undeniable in the true slave who worships those of unquestioned power. He or she longs for perfection even in the slave state, and perfection for a naked pleasure slave must be yielding to the most extreme punishments. The slave spiritualizes these ordeals, no matter how crude and painful." Anne Rice "It is the Master that creates the order, the Master who lifts the slave out of the engulfing chaos of abuse, and disciplines the slave. refines the slave, drives the slave further in ways that random punishments might never provide. It is the Master, not the punishments, who perfects the slave." Anne Rice "I enjoy certain things - no one else has to enjoy them. And I see certain things in a certain way - but no one else has to see those things in the same way. And then again, no one has the right to tell me it's immoral or selfish or wrong to do what I do."   Holly Johnson "To do is to be"   Jean-Paul Satre