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
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
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.
The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by theaggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
I'm not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.
I don't want peace that passeth understanding, I want understanding which bringeth peace.
True happiness...is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
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.
We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.
The place between your comfort zone and your dream is where life takes place.
Happiness is like the mountain summit. It is sometimes hidden by clouds, but we know it is there.
I learned that it is possible for us to create light, sound and order within us no matter what calamity befall us in the outer world.