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.
As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision
Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind.
When one door closes, another one opens, but sometimes we wait too long looking at the closed door, and never realize that another door has been opened.
We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.
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.
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
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.
True happiness...is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
I don't want peace that passeth understanding, I want understanding which bringeth peace.
I can feel the twinkle of his eye in his handshake.
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.