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
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.
A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
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.
We are never really happy until we try to brighten the lives of others.
The simplest way to be happy is to do good.
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 think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.
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.