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
There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness.
The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.
Everybody talks, nobody listens. Good listeners are as rare as white crows.
What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
We have prayed, we have coaxed, we have begged, for the vote, with the hope that men, out of chivalry, would bestow equal rights upon women and take them into partnership in the affairs of the state. We hoped that their common sense would triumph over prejudices and stupidity. We thought their boasted sense of justice would overcome the errors that so often fetter the human spirit; but we have always gone away empty handed. We shall beg no more.
I take happiness very seriously. It is a creed, a philosophy and an objective.
With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world.
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun.
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
The living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!
You will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles.
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
The clatter of a changing world is not pleasant, and those who have enjoyed the comforts and protection of the old order may be shocked and unhappy when they behold the vigorous young builders of a new world sweeping away their time-honored antiquities.