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
To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.
I thank God for my handicaps, for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God
I sometimes wonder if the hand is not more sensitive to the beauties of sculpture than the eye. I should think the wonderful rhythmical flow of lines and curves could be more subtly felt than seen. Be this as it may, I know that I can feel the heart-throbs of the ancient Greeks in their marble gods and goddesses.
God himself is not secure, having given man dominion over his work.
I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.
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.
When one door to happiness closes, another opens. But often we look so long at the closed door we do not see the one which has been opened to us.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us
When one door of happiness closes, another opens.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
Fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present.
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them? but do not let them master you.Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
I can feel the twinkle of his eye in his handshake.