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""Mr. Tongue gliding over Little Kitten’s small tongue!
Mr. Tongue sucking at Little Kitten’s tongue, such a sensation!—Little Kitten is breathless, dazed as if she will faint…"
👁️👄👁️" — 1 hour, 44 min ago
""Mr. Tongue gliding over Little Kitten’s small tongue!
Mr. Tongue sucking at Little Kitten’s tongue, such a sensation!—Little Kitten is breathless, dazed as if she will faint…"
👁️👄👁️" — 1 hour, 44 min ago
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""His eyes flickered down the length of her body, his eyebrows raised in a silent question. An irate flush rose on Leena’s cheeks, recalling in more detail than she wanted to admit the look he’d given her last night when he’d seen her in her nightgown—his tight throat, his burning eyes."
As a ho for shadow daddies, I would've folded" — 4 hours, 55 min ago
""His eyes flickered down the length of her body, his eyebrows raised in a silent question. An irate flush rose on Leena’s cheeks, recalling in more detail than she wanted to admit the look he’d given her last night when he’d seen her in her nightgown—his tight throat, his burning eyes."
As a ho for shadow daddies, I would've folded" — 4 hours, 55 min ago
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""It’s always been much easier to make war than to make peace."" — 5 hours, 33 min ago
""It’s always been much easier to make war than to make peace."" — 5 hours, 33 min ago
I love the poem as it forms under my fingers, image after image, word after word. And then fear arrives and certainty disappears. That contented moment when the creator is fascinated by his creation ends for me.
“You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad.”
― The Little Prince
― The Little Prince
“The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.”
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“The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.”
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“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
― The Art of War
― The Art of War
“It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.
It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive.
It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain!I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it, or fix it.
I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, to be realistic, to remember the limitations of being human.
It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul; if you can be faithlessand therefore trustworthy.
I want to know if you can see beauty even when it's not pretty, every day,and if you can source your own life from its presence.
I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, “Yes!”
It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up, after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done to feed the children.
It doesn't interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back.
It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you, from the inside, when all else falls away.
I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.”
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It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive.
It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain!I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it, or fix it.
I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, to be realistic, to remember the limitations of being human.
It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul; if you can be faithlessand therefore trustworthy.
I want to know if you can see beauty even when it's not pretty, every day,and if you can source your own life from its presence.
I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, “Yes!”
It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up, after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done to feed the children.
It doesn't interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back.
It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you, from the inside, when all else falls away.
I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.”
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