QUOTES

Do not treat others as you would want them to treat you, as you may not share the same tastes
George Bernard Shaw

No one can control your mind if you have not put your mind under their control
Samuel O. Adeola

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

You give little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
And there are those who give with pain, and that pain is their baptism.
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

And there are those who talk, and without knowledge or forethought reveal a truth which they themselves do not understand.
And there are those who have the truth within them, but they tell it not in words.
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue
Jean Fontaine

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another
Madonna

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
Samuel Johnson

The superior man is firm in the right way, and not merely firm.
Confucius

Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other
Laurence

Man endures pain as an undeserved punishment; woman accepts it as a natural heritage.
Anonymous

Never a lip is curved with pain
That can't be kissed into smiles again.
Bret Harte

And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain
Edmund Spenser, The Fairie Queen (1596) Stanza 60

One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
De Sade

If the objects who serve us feel ecstasy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired. The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.
De Sade

No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain; its impressions are unmistakable
De Sade

Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman’s entire but decisive advantage. Through man’s passions, nature has given man into woman’s hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave, her toy, and how to betray him with a smile in the end is not wise.
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch (1835–1895), Venus in Furs (1870)

The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
Jacob Bronowski

The man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet (1772-1834)

The impression of keen whips I'd wear as rubies
William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act II; Scene IV

Maybe I just wanna touch you Feel you warm inside again Maybe I just wanna hurt you The sweetest pleasure is pain. Enrique Iglesias , Love To See You Cry, 2002

I don't know why, why But I love to see you cry I don't know why, why It just make me feel alive.

So bring it on, I've been bruised
Don't give me love that's clean and smooth
I'm ready for the rougher stuff
No sweet romance, I've had enough
Elton John, I Want Love

Pain is so Close to Pleasure
Freddie Mercury, Pain is so Close to Pleasure from A Kind of Magic 1985/6

Be honest, be trustworthy, be kind and be ever-alert to the condition of the soul you are partnered with, dom or sub.
Philip Miller & Molly Devon, Screw The Roses, Send Me The Thorns

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
Mohandas Gandhi

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
Mohandas Gandhi

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