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
We may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during his early adult life. Darkness would make him appreciate sight; silence would teach him the joys of sound.
I can feel the twinkle of his eye in his handshake.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
Fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present.
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them? but do not let them master you.Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
When one door to happiness closes, another opens. But often we look so long at the closed door we do not see the one which has been opened to us.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us
When one door of happiness closes, another opens.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.