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
When we do the best we can, we never know what miracles await.
Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.
Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
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.