{"quotes":[{"text":"If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["beauty","blind","blindness","contemplation","inner-beauty","love","relationship","seeing","shallowness","thought-provoking","true-love","unconditional-love"],"id":2117,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"The bible gives me a deep comforting sense that (things seen are temporal,and things unseen are eternal.","author":"Helen Keller","tags":["bible","blindness","eternal","sight","temporal"],"id":6765,"author_id":"Helen+Keller"},{"text":"It's a queer business, making oneself blind.","author":"Ursula K. Le Guin","tags":["blindness","choice"],"id":9910,"author_id":"Ursula+K.+Le+Guin"},{"text":"The soldier stared at Ingrid. His silence was elastic, slowly curling a rope around her neck.","author":"Ruta Sepetys","tags":["blindness","ingrid","joana","metaphor","ruta-sepetys","salt-to-the-sea","soldier","threat","war"],"id":20027,"author_id":"Ruta+Sepetys"},{"text":"It has been my experience that law enforcement reports are littered with fabrications, inaccuracies, omissions, fraud, fantasies and willful blindness.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["blindness","enforcement","experience","fabrications","fantasies","fraud","inaccuracies","law","littered","omissions","reports","willful"],"id":20503,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"Until you see beauty everywhere, in every face, until then, you are blind.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["awakening","aware","awareness","beautiful","beauty","beauty","blind","blindness","conscious","consciousness","everybody","everyone","everywhere","face","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","love","perceive","perception","perspective","see","sight","transcend","transcendence","ugliness","ugly","until","vision"],"id":30115,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"What good is there in being blind, you ask? Well, maybe it's to see the beauty on the inside without being vainly distracted, or superficially blinded, by the ugly on the outside.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["beautiful","beauty","blessing","blindness","curse","distraction","gift","goodness","inner-beauty","inner-person","love","perception","personality","sincerity","superficial","ugly","vanity"],"id":32062,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"There is just as much beauty visible to us in the landscape as we are prepared to appreciate, and not a grain more. ... A man sees only what concerns him.","author":"Henry David Thoreau","tags":["appreciation","beauty","blindness"],"id":37669,"author_id":"Henry+David+Thoreau"},{"text":"What's simple is that everything good comes from God, and everything bad comes from man. Where it gets complicated is that everything seemingly good but ultimately bad comes from man, and everything seemingly bad but ultimately good comes from God.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["apologetics","bad","blindness","blindness-of-man","complexity","complication","depravity","desire","discernment","emotion","evil","fallen","glory","god","good","happiness","heart","holiness","ignorance","joy","judgment","love","lust","man","meaning","misunderstood","morality","omnipotence","omnipresence","omniscience","pain","passion","perfection","purpose","reason","scam","simplicity","sin","sovereignty","stupidity","stupidity-of-man","suffering","ultimate","understanding"],"id":38681,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.","author":"Margaret Cho","tags":["beauty","blindness"],"id":41681,"author_id":"Margaret+Cho"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":126,"pages":13,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}