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
People are too prone to think that the actual is the limit of possibility. They believe that all that has been done is all that can be done.
If you look toward the sunshine, you will never see the shadows.
I demand that the world be good, and lo, it obeys. I proclaim the world good, and facts range themselves to prove my proclamation overwhelmingly true. To what good I open the doors of my being, and jealously shut them against what is bad. Such is the force of this beautiful and willful conviction, it carries itself in the face of all opposition. I am never discouraged by absence of good. I never can be argued into hopelessness. Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.
Joy is a spiritual element that gives vicissitudes unity and significance.
No nation is wise enough to rule another.
I feel the flame of eternity in my soul.
health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.
Happiness is a state of mind, and depends very little on outward circumstances.
Instead of being satisfied to alleviate suffering, we shall labor hard and continually to prevent it.
The true task is to unite and organize all workers...and it is the workers themselves who must secure freedom for themselves....
I cannot remember how I felt when the light went out of my eyes. I suppose I felt it was always night and perhaps I wondered why the day did not come.
Don't give me the peace that passeth understanding, give me understanding.
Faith reinvigorates the will, enriches the affections, and awakens a sense of creativeness. Active faith knows no fear, and it is a safeguard to me against cynicism and despair.
Love? Why ... it is what everybody feels for everybody else.