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
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.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.
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.
The best things in life are not seen or heard ... but felt with the heart.
I rejoice to live in such a splendidly disturbing time!
Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind.
Life is to be lived as a magnificent adventure, or not at all.
It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life.
The saddest thing in life is people with sight, but without vision.
To keep our faces toward chance and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
Life is an adventure or nothing