The truth is so dear to me that if Orholam stood on one side and truth on the other, I would turn my back on my creator himself.
I studied with a blind teacher from about 5 until I was 16, at two different schools. From the age of 12 until 16, I was in a boarding school-which, I believe, at that time was compulsory for blind children.
Just as love makes you blind so does wealth, and of the two blindnesses wealth is the worse because of the incalculable harm it is able to do to people other than yourself.
They, who have no eyes in their face, are not called blind. They alone are blind, O Nanak, who stray away from their Lord.
Narcissistic love is riding on the rollecoaster of disaster filled with a heart full of tears.
People couldn't understand why my mama would have this blind kid out doing things like cutting wood for the fire. But her thing was: He may be blind, but he ain't stupid.
Stop telling me that love is blind. Love doesn't need to be blind; it is accepting. It can see everything and still be unconditionally strong. Love sees you and accepts you for who you are.
My mother had been blind as a child. And so, blindness was something that has long fascinated me, but also it's something I find really, really scary.
Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the core belief that equality, opportunity and security are truly possible for all people who are blind.
You don't want too much fear in a market, because people will be blinded to some very good buying opportunities. You don't want too much complacency because people will be blinded to some risk.
The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of a stunt pilot's turning barrel rolls, or an inchworm's blind rearing from a stem in search of a route. At its worst, it feels like alliga...
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings?
Beorn: I don't like dwarves. They are greedy and blind, blind to the lives of those they deem lesser than themselves... But orcs, I hate more.
Coach Cotton: Was he holding? Official: No. Coach Cotton: Was he blocking after the whistle? Official: No. Coach Cotton: Then what was the flag for? Official: I don't know. Excessive blocking.
Michael Oher: Ms. Touhy? Leigh Anne Touhy: I hear Ms. Touhy I look over my shoulder for my mother-in-law.
We can't expect a blind man to appreciate beautiful patterns or a deaf man to listen to bells and drums. And blindness and deafness are not confined to the body alone - the understanding has them, too.
Faith is the mortar that fills the cracks in the evidence and the gaps in the logic, and thus it is faith that keeps the whole terrible edifice of religious certainty still looming dangerously over our world.
The one-eyed man thanks God only when he sees a man blind in both eyes.
Faith has a role to play in life. It is not related to success. It is the other way round. Success is related to faith. Faith comes first.
Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
Take faith, for example. For many people in our world, the opposite of faith is doubt. The goal, then, within this understanding, is to eliminate doubt. But faith and doubt aren't opposites. Doubt is often a sign that your faith has a pulse, that it'...
