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
When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun.
Fear: the best way out is through.
Even if you have a problem, you don't need to be one.
What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress and civilization.
Making a mistake is falling down; failure is not getting up again.
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.
A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.
I don't want to live in a hand -me -down world of others' experiences. I want to write about me, my discoveries, my fears, my feelings, about me.
When one reads hurriedly and nervously, having in mind written tests and examinations, one's brain becomes encumbered with a lot of bric-a-brac for which there seems to be little use.
There will never be another now - I'll make the most of today. There will never be another me - I'll make the most of myself.
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.