#submission

The world you once knew is no more for you. ↗

— Travis Luedke

#change #control #domination #nightlife #submission

Keep me rather in this cage, and feed me sparingly, if you dare. Anything that brings me closer to illness and the edge of death makes me more faithful. It is only when you make me suffer that I feel safe and secure. You should never have agreed to be a god for me if you were afraid to assume the duties of a god, and we know that they are not as tender as all that. You have already seen me cry. Now you must learn to relish my tears. ↗

— Pauline Réage

#cruelty #dark #faith #god #love

I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#equality #freedom #gender #independence #men

Make me a captive, Lord, And then I shall be free; Force me to render up my sword, And I shall conqueror be. I sink in life's alarms When by myself I stand; Imprison me within Thine arms, And strong shall be my hand ↗

— George Matheson

#submission #life

Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretends you are faultless – one who will caress the hand that strikes her and kiss the lips that lie to her." (Letter, 17 June 1837) ↗

— George Sand

#gender #imperfections #inequality #men #mysogyny

You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#motivation #risk #submission #motivational

The reason why many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little forward progress is because they haven't yet come to the end of themselves. We're still trying to give orders, and interfering with God's work within us. ↗

— A.W. Tozer

#surrender #trouble

It's always a mistake for writers to key their submissions to world events, because they move so quickly and unpredictably, as has certainly proven the case in Afghanistan. ↗

— Richard Curtis

#always #because #case #certainly #events

A terrorist network that believes a nation so tested will fold under pressure of a few horrific acts may capture its attention, but will not achieve its submission. ↗

— Virginia Foxx

#acts #attention #believes #capture #few

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself. ↗

— Henry Miller

#dedicate #devotion #himself #his #lies