Helen Keller
Helen Keller
Helen Adams Kellerwas an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree. The story of how Keller's teacher, Anne Sullivan, broke through the isolation imposed by a near complete lack of language, allowing the girl to blossom as she learned to communicate, has become widely known through the dramatic depictions of the play and film The Miracle Worker. Her birthplace in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, is now a museum and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth27 June 1880
CityTuscumbia, AL
CountryUnited States of America
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Even if you have a problem, you don't need to be one.
Happiness is like the mountain summit. It is sometimes hidden by clouds, but we know it is there.
It gives me a deep comforting sense that "things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.
I thank God for my handicaps, for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God
It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.
I don't want peace that passeth understanding, I want understanding which bringeth peace.
We may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low.
''Knowledge is power.'' Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.
We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.