Jonathan Swift first penned this phrase and he meant it then as we mean it now - a welcome sight. ( source )

The thought origin of this popular idiom is rather interesting and factual! Read about it here .  The meaning of the phrase is to attempt to deceive or trick someone.

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This morning when I woke up my youngest redhead she cracked open her eyes and in the dark, with no contacts in yet, she peeks up at me still half asleep and says, "You're pretty."  I chuckled and rubbed her back and said, "You are in the dark without your eyeballs in yet, how do you know?"  And she says, "Mama, you are pretty." My oldest redhead tells me the same thing quite often, as does my husband.   Huh. They must have different eyes than I do.  They must see me in a different way than I do.  When I see me that's not what I say (thus I have also now revealed an insecurity of mine - be gentle with me okay?). Sometimes I study myself trying to see what my children and husband see.  I still haven't received their eyesight.  But this morning I feel grateful for the eyesight of my husband and children, I think they see what might be more true than what I see.  My eyes are obscured by past hurts regarding my looks and body image, by my own unre...

You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.   Johnny Depp The heart feels what it feels. Absorbs what it absorbs.  Even the hardest hearts that have walls built up feel and absorb.  Unwillingly yes but even those hearts feel.  Unlike the eyes that can close to the hard things that will make us feel things we don't want to, our hearts cannot close to those things.  I've seen this happen when traveling through the slums.  I know a woman (no it's not me referring to myself in third person) who walked through the slum of Mathare Valley with me.  She closed her eyes to what she saw and she tried and tried and tried to close her heart but she couldn't.  And the more she tried the angrier she got and the more upset she became.  She found a person to be the target of her anger.   Someone who she funneled all that she was trying to ignore her heart was feeling...