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
The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.
The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by theaggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.
Even if you have a problem, you don't need to be one.
Happiness is like the mountain summit. It is sometimes hidden by clouds, but we know it is there.
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.
Although the world is full of suffering,it is also full of the overcoming of it.
We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.
The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.
True happiness...is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
It gives me a deep comforting sense that "things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.
I thank God for my handicaps, for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God
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.
No loss by flood and lightening, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed