BiographyType: Author, political activist, lecturer Born: June 27, 1880 Died: June 1, 1968 (aged 87) Helen Adams Keller was 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 sponsors an annual "Helen Keller Day". Her birthday on June 27 is commemorated as Helen Keller Day in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and was authorized at the federal level by presidential proclamation by President Jimmy Carter in 1980, the 100th anniversary of her birth. |
Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.
Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
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.
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.
We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world
Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
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.
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