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 best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
One can never consent to creep when one feels the compulsion to soar.
As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision
''Knowledge is power.'' Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low.
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them? but do not let them master you.Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
Fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched ... but are felt in the heart.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
I thank God for my handicaps, for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God
So long as I confine my activities to social services and the blind, the newspapers compliment me extravagantly, calling me an 'arch-priest of the sightless' and 'wonder woman'. But when I discuss poverty and the industrial system under which we live that is a different matter.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
It gives me a deep comforting sense that "things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.