{"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["blind","blinded","life","living","search","searching","survival","survive","surviving","wonder","wonderful","wondering"],"id":8583,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Sometimes your belief system is really your fears attached to rules.","author":"Shannon L. 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Alder","tags":["bias","bigotry","blinded","discriminatin","dogs","hatred","humor","ignorance","judgement","neighbors","not-caring","prejudice","sarcasim","self-absorbed","stay-positive","strangers","uneducated","wacko","witch-hunts"],"id":79108,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"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.","author":"Debasish Mridha","tags":["beautiful","blinded","bright","education","gorgeous","happiness","hope","inspirational","intelligence","knowledge","life","love","morning","philosophy","sun","tasks","truth","wisdom"],"id":83439,"author_id":"Debasish+Mridha"},{"text":"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.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["alive","attitude","blind","blinded","blindness","conscience","creator","ego","faith","falsehood","finding-truth","god","heart","humanity","ignorant","illumination","lamps","lies","life","light","man","mankind","media","men","million","people","reason","recognize","religion","rumors","see","seeiking-truth","seeking-god","society","truth","truthful","vision"],"id":92678,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"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?","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["bad-behavior","behavior-problems","blinded","history","ignore","issues","men","overlook","stayingpositiveu-com"],"id":133492,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Isn't it strange how people are selective about the truth the want to see or hear?","author":"E.A. Bucchianeri","tags":["blinded","blindness-of-man","deaf-to-the-truth","human-nature","humanity","mankind","observation-on-life","observations","people","philosophical","sad-but-true","search-for-truth","selective","true","truth","turning-a-blind-eye"],"id":141074,"author_id":"E.A.+Bucchianeri"},{"text":"He loved her in spite of her unlovableness. Armande had many trying, thought not necessarily rare, traits, all of which he accepted as absurd clues in a clever puzzle.","author":"Vladimir Nabokov","tags":["acceptance","blinded","love","lovestruck","object-of-desire","obsession","romantic","smitten","stupid","unloveable"],"id":151548,"author_id":"Vladimir+Nabokov"},{"text":"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?","author":"Jesikah Sundin","tags":["ashes","blinded","humor","jesikah-sundin","light","mackayla-lane","sky","sun","sun","the-biodome-chronicles","transitions"],"id":163509,"author_id":"Jesikah+Sundin"},{"text":"If a man, who says he loves you, won’t tell you the details of a private conversation between him and another woman you can be sure he is not protecting your heart. He is protecting himself and the women he has feelings for. Wise women simply see things as they are, not as their low self-esteem allows.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["blinded","cheat","confidence","dignity","dishonorable","emotional-affair","ex-boyfriend","fake","flirtation","flirting","gullible","liar","lies","low-self-esteem","lying","players","relationships","self-worth","spouse","stupid-women","worth"],"id":172228,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":27,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}