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
We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
We are never really happy until we try to brighten the lives of others.
The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Surely there is no road of effort so steep but a loving deed may soften its hardshness.
What can rulers, nobility and all the lords of the earth say to justify the horrible killing and maiming of twenty or thirty million valuable men who a short while ago ploughed, dug, wove, built, guided the traffic of the world, took their pleasure, loved their fellows, cherished their families, and feared naught?
Good friends walk in when the old ones walk out.
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
The heart of a friend gives out sufficient light for us in the dark to rise by.
Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
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.
Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free.
A person who is severely impaired never knows his hidden sources of strength until he is treated like a normal human being and encouraged to shape his own life.