#blindness

When life's got you down, keep your head up... you can't see the ground anyway ↗

— Nicole Rae

#blindness #humor #inspirational #motivational #visual-impairment

blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born. ↗

— José Saramago

#inspiration #privacy #inspirational

I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness. ↗

— Vachel Lindsay

#am #blind #blindness #cry #i

We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought. ↗

— Oliver Sacks

#cognition #communication #community #senses #sociality

I want to be able to see stuff," Iggy said. "Like I used to, when I was little. And I want to be able to totally kick Jeb's butt. ↗

— James Patterson

#iggy #maximum-ride #revenge #experience

...Goddamn himself for letting his independence slip away from him. He didn't even know how it had happened, how he had lost the ability to function on his own, or what the hell he was going to do about it now. ↗

— Kimberly Gardner

#disability #independence #love