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
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Everybody talks, nobody listens. Good listeners are as rare as white crows.
The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.
When it seems that our sorrow is too great to be borne, let us think of the great family of the heavy-hearted into which our grief has given us entrance. And inevitably, we will feel about us their arms, their sympathy and their understanding.
Hold out your hands to feel the luxury of the sunbeams.
While the right friends are near us, we feel that all is well. Our everyday life blossoms suddenly into bright possibilities.
Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free.
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
We are never really happy until we try to brighten the lives of others.
This world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in somber circumstances and irksome tasks.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.
He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress.
Certainly it is one of our sweetest experiences that when we are touched by some noble affection or pure joy, we remember the dead most tenderly, and feel more powerfully drawn to them.