Blinded Quotes

“A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it. Our shadow asks us to look at what we don’t want to see”
― Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

“Sometimes your belief system is really your fears attached to rules.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Anyone can plot a course with a map or compass; but without a sense of who you are, you will never know if you're already home.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“When you are being judged by someone that has no idea who you are always remember this: Dogs always bark at strangers and usually there is always some wacko neighbor that wants to try out their new gun on an intruder.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“If a man says he is Christian, yet he has no problems knocking you up, having premarital sex or living in sin with you, then you have to ask yourself, “What version of Christ does he believe in?”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Never stand in the way of letting God use people’s actions, in order to solve a greater issue in the world.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“The first and last weakness of his life, before him again. For a moment he felt himself blinded by his own memories; his own remembrances of the wits and wiles of Marian Halcombe that would steal into his thoughts; the sound of her laughter at his outrageous tales, the shadowed glance of distrust, the way her eyebrows would raise ever so slightly despite her resolution to seem disinterested in his foreign insights. She was the first woman he ventured to have complete equality in matching his tremendous cleverness.”
― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

“It was strange enough to think that Norah knew who I was before I knew who she was. That she'd been in Tris's orbit without me noticing. But I guess you don't see the planets when you're staring at the sun. You just get blinded.”
― David Levithan, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

“Trust, is the stone thrown into the sea, sinking deep in all its murkiness, unable to see what it once lived and believed to be a promise.”
― Anthony Liccione

“It may be that we’re not seeing the wonder in life because all we’re doing is wondering how we’re going to survive life.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Every morning is bright, beautiful, and gorgeous like the sun, but we can't see it because we are blinded by day to day tasks.”
― Debasish Mridha

“What you see will hurt you; what you don't see will hurt you.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Isn't it strange how people are selective about the truth the want to see or hear?”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

“Better to be blinded by love than hate; one forgives and the other refuses.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“It is not in the gene of an Intellectually blinded person to experience the paradise in the writer's imagination.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“He loved her in spite of her unlovableness. Armande had many trying, though not necessarily rare, traits, all of which he accepted as absurd clues in a clever puzzle.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things

“I feel like I've been in a dark tunnel, but now I'm no longer blinded by darkness, but rather by an overwhelming brightness. A brightness that makes me barely able to open my eyes. It's like I have no choice but to gravitate towards it, like it's pulling me out into the light. It's the best feeling in the world. It's my saving grace.”
― J.B. McGee, Forever

“Empowered Women 101: The moment you ignore bad behavior, in order to win a person's affection you have not won anything, but a person that has behavioral problems. If you couldn't fix their behavior before you won him, why could you fix him now?”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Often we don’t see the majesty of God’s design because we’re caught up in the mediocrity of our own designs.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“He threw his hands to his eyes and hissed. Like the hiss of incinerating ashes. 'What is this bright, orange orb in the sky that mocks me with its warmth?”
― Jesikah Sundin, Transitions

“At birth and at dawn
for each and every day
it triumphs over the eclipse.

It is the very first thing that you see.
Its power is blinding at first,
anon it opens our eyes
to the allure of the world.

Each moment it breathes life into us,
warms our souls and colors our skin.

At gloaming it seems to wane,
while it privily awaits a time
to give birth to a new circle of life.”
― Akilnathan Logeswaran

“He threw his hands to his eyes and hissed. Like the hiss of incinerating ashes. "What is this bright, orange orb in the sky that mocks me with its warmth?”
― Jesikah Sundin, Transitions

“The war on Christmas is waged of weakness and fed by vision blinded. It is a war of intellect blunted to stupidity and calling begging at the feet of cowardice.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus