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
Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.
Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it, while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill. The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation is the same as in the life of the individual. Pessimism kills the instinct that urges men to struggle against poverty, ignorance and crime, and dries up all the fountains of joy in the world.
It is curious to observe what different ideals of happiness people cherish, and in what singular places they look for this well-spring of their life. Many look for it in the hoarding of riches, some in the pride of power, and others in the achievements of art and literature; a few seek it in the exploration of their own minds, or in search for knowledge.
I, for one, love strength, daring, fortitude. I do not want people to kill the fight in them; I want them to fight for right things.
Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
I am conscious of a soul-sense that lifts me above the narrow, cramping circumstances of my life. My physical limitations are forgotten- my world lies upward, the length and the breadth and the sweep of the heavens are mine!
Your success and happiness lie in you.
Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction! Be heroes in an army of construction!
Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.
The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.