Helen Keller

About

Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree.

At 19 months old Keller contracted an unknown illness that left her both deaf and blind. Helen Keller was viewed as isolated but was very in touch with the outside world. She was able to enjoy music by feeling the beat and she was able to have a strong connection with animals through touch. She was delayed at picking up language, but that did not stop her from having a voice. Some of her books include 'Light in my darkness', 'Story of my life', 'The world I live in & Optimism'.

Quotes

The best and most beautiful things in the world see cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

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 been opened for us.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

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.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

The highest result of education is tolerance.
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

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