Blind Quotes
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"Sometimes your light shines so bright that it blinds people from seeing who you really are."
"Like a sculptor, if necessary,carve a friend out of stone.Realize that your inner sight is blindand try to see a treasure in everyone."
"If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it."
"In a blind taste-test, my kisses were rated as Helen Kelleresque. Women love how the only sense I keenly possess is nonsense."
"She looked, but she couldn’t see. She was wearing an emotional blindfold, and though she heard me say I love you, she just didn’t listen."
"Nostalgia is being blind to the bad and only remembering the good. Thinking about all the love I had for her is a positively Helen-Kelleresque experience."
"I think I’m mouth blind and that’s why all food tastes bland. The only things that have any flavor are the words I love you."
"Nobody looks at what can’t look. We don’t see what doesn’t see. If love is blind, then so are we, because it’s all around us."
"A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it."
"I have been in my bed for five weeks, oppressed with weakness and other infirmities from which my age, seventy four years, permits me not to hope release. Added to this (proh dolor! [O misery!]) the sight of my right eye — that eye whose labors (dare I say it) have had such glorious results — is for ever lost. That of the left, which was and is imperfect, is rendered null by continual weeping."
"If the Creator stood before a million men with the light of a million lamps, only a few would truly see him because truth is already alive in their hearts. Truth can only be seen by those with truth in them. He who does not have Truth in his heart, will always be blind to it."
"This is how the girl who couldn't speak and the man who couldn't see fell in love."
"Love is blind. Especially in the morning, because I can't see a damn thing before having coffee."
Aleksandra Ninkovic, Better to be able to love than to be loveable
"If you ignore the red flags, embrace the heartache to come."
Amanda Mosher, Better to be able to love than to be loveable
"The language of God is color because, it's the only thing that everyone understands. And even if you're blind to the world you can still hear the color in everything.If you don't believe me, close your eyes and listen to the wind and feel it on your skin; listen to the birds as they call one another and feel the sunlight on your face.That's love and that's what color is and that is the language of God."
"Sometimes playing stupid opens your eyes to the truth."
"O God open our eyes to see the wonders of your holy word."
"Things that are truly great need nothing from me, and to somehow think that they do speaks to my utter lack of greatness."
"Do not shout at me, Mr. Quill," said John [Adams]. "Justice may be blind, but she is not deaf."
"Silence is a lie that screams at the light."
"Love is not blind, lovers can see what others cannot see."
"Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands."
"There is a master way with words which is not learned but is instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper..."
"I realized that your mother couldn't see the emptiness, she couldn't see anything...All of the words I'd written to her over all of those years, had I never said anything to hear at all?"
"Much of human behavior can be explained by watching the wild beasts around us. They are constantly teaching us things about ourselves and the way of the universe, but most people are too blind to watch and listen."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"Religion searches for reason, and never finds purpose. They think the purpose is to have better reasons. The people are blind, and their religion does not want them to see. Religion gives them reasons based on principles instead of eyes to see."
"The path of life is strewn with many perils and the folly of knowledge is one of the greatest dangers. Wisdom is a treacherous weapon, little master, for it is sundered from compassion. All too often the end of the journey gains more import than it should and the wise become blind to the road and the method of their passing."
"You can't always expect people to apply your wisdom when they didn't use wisdom before they found themselves knee deep in their version of justice."
"When life's got you down, keep your head up... you can't see the ground anyway"
"How can we lead the blind, if we are blind ourselves? His wine is coming to blur our vision, so that we can receive His vision."
"Avoid fear because it will blind you from seeing God’s purpose about your life and limit your potential."
"Love isn’t blind. Maybe we are all born blind and love finally gives us sight."
"Shame on the misguided, the blinded, the distracted and the divided. Shame. You have allowed deceptive men to corrupt and desensitize your hearts and minds to unethically fuel their greed."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"When my vision is numbed by apathy and narrowed by mediocrity, I can stand in the presence of great things and fail to see even the smallest of things."
"She walked empty handed in the street, where everyone sold their dreams. Ignoring the cold stares of the demon, which guarded it and always craved for the taste of the things every soul hid. At the dead end, it leapt on her. Digging the nails deep into her chest, in the search of the dreams, she hid. Only to be destroyed by the light shot from her heart. The light that blinded the whole world, setting the dreams of others free."
"To even begin to embrace the magnitude of God’s vision, we must first embrace our vision as being nothing more than vision by definition."
"I FELT HAPPINESS LIKE A BLIND,TILL I HAD A SATISFIED MIND.SORROW FOR WHAT I LOST,IS LIKE DREAMS THAT COST."
"Sunglasses are more useful to a blind man than freedom of speech is to a man who does not think for himself."
"Blind party loyalty will be our downfall. We must follow the truth wherever it leads."
"If you can’t see a solution it does not mean it doesn’t exist, you are just blind to it"
"Until you see beauty everywhere, in every face, until then, you are blind."
"As he shook off his servant’s grip and staggered heavily to his feet, the sunlight streaming through the outside door struck him full in the face.Samantha gasped.A fresh scar, still red and angry, bisected the corner of his left eye and descended down his cheek in a jagged lightning bolt, drawing the skin around it taut. It had once been an angel’s face with the sort of masculine beauty reserved only for princes and seraphim."
"Make no mistake about it. We are born blind, deaf, and mute. It is neither these eyes that give us sight, nor these ears that give us sound. It is not even these lips that give us voice. It is only love. Love makes us seek beauty and truth. Love yearns to connect. To experience. To understand. So close your eyes at once. Don’t utter a word. Perk up your ears and listen to that silent sound inside you where all this is found."
"Even a blind man could see she is beautiful."
"As a photographer you have a deep love for light, life and yourself. You know that the eyes of love aren’t blind, they are wide open. Only when your eye, heart and soul shine brighter than the sun, you realize how ordinary it is to love the beautiful, and how beautiful it is to love the ordinary."
"Fear punches holes in your eyes so that you don't see the future clearly. Faith enlarges your vision to behold your destiny."
"When did the very first case of racism even occur? When did such blind hatred devour the souls of men and make them turn on their own brothers and sisters? What ever taught them that it was normal to be such monsters?"
"Do something worth praise,The world turns blind,And get ready to face the rage,When you are just being kind."
"The world has been blind in the presence of artificial lights.They blame about the darkness in broad daylight."
"Name and form are simply illusions of separation. Love doesn’t make us blind; rather, it erases the illusions so we can see clearly."
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