Helen Keller
Helen Keller (1880-1968) was an American writer who had become blind and deaf after illness at the age of nineteen months. She, however, overcame the challenge. She wrote numerous books including her autobiography The Story of My life published in 1902. She was a great orator and lecturer. She received President Medal of Freedom in 1964.Wisdom & Quotes
- There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
- Literature is my utopia.
- The highest result of education is tolerance.
- Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
- Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
- We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
- What is the use of such terrible diligence as many tire themselves out with, if they always postpone their exchange of smiles with Beauty and Joy to cling to irksome duties and relations?
- Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
- Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.
- I can see, and that is why I can be so happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a man-made world.
Jeanette Rankin