Here are just a few incredible everyday people who prove that vision loss is not a barrier to success, independence, and living life to the fullest!

Visually Impaired (Rifle) Shooter;

https://stroudtimes.com/visually-impaired-shooter-targets-global-success/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJVQ_BleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHRYABa9aD-QTQKsZ0gDjHZdlQeELHj_iEn2JVoNhujie_IHCh4qibo9iWA_aem_SaCVDdnAUw0Wh0pUBZa8lw

 

Five Different Stories on Losing Sight, Finding Hope: Living with Macular Degeneration

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSApwfhJJPg

 

The Blind Life YouTuber on Adapting and Thriving with Vision Loss | Sam Seavey | Beacon Story;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=VJIYUXuW6zA

 

Visually Impaired Architect;

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/architect-chris-downey-goes-blind-says-hes-actually-gotten-better-at-his-job-60-minutes-2020-07-05/

 

Visually Impaired Chef;

https://www.theblindcook.com/

 

Blind Mechanic;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyyIGpeN0nk

 

 Navigating life with new vision changes can be challenging. I hope these quotes offer strength and inspiration for you and your family as you embark on your new journey; 

 

  • "The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them." - Helen Keller 
     
  • "To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable." 
     
  • "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller 
     
  • "What you see is not always what you get. The true beauty is what you can't see." 
     
  • "I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world." 
     
  • "A bend in the road is not the end of the road. Unless you fail to make the turn." - Helen Keller 
     
  • "Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow." - Helen Keller 
     
  • "The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision." - Helen Keller 
     
  • "Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content." 
     
  • "Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision." - Stevie Wonder 
     
  • "So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable." - Christopher Reeve 
     
  • "The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better." - Helen Keller 
     
  • "To keep on trying in spite of disappointment and failure is the only way to keep young and brave." - Helen Keller 
     
  • "The real blindness is not the inability to see with the eyes but the inability to see with the heart."