Helen Keller
Born: 01-01-1880
Helen Keller was an American author, disability rights advocate, and political activist. Born in 1880, she lost her sight and hearing at 19 months old due to an illness. With the help of her teacher Anne Sullivan, Keller learned to communicate and went on to become the first deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. Her autobiography, "The Story of My Life," remains influential and inspiring worldwide.
Book summaries for books written by Helen Keller
Quotes
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
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.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
Security is mostly a superstition. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome.
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.