Helen Keller Helen Adams Keller was an American author, political activist and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. The story of how Keller's teacher, Annie Sullivan, broke through the isolation imposed by a near more..more..

“ Helen Keller: The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. #Sweet Love#Sweet Love

“ Helen Keller:When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us. #Motivational#Motivational

“ Helen Keller:Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. #Best Friend#Best Friend

“ Helen Keller: When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. #Effort #Effort

“ Helen Keller: I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. #Action#Action

“ Helen Keller:Knowledge is love and light and vision. #Love#Love

“ Helen Keller: The best way out is always through. #Problems#Problems

“ Helen Keller:The most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me. I am filled with wonder when I consider the immeasurable contrasts between the two lives which it connects. It was the third of March, 1887, three months before I was seven years old. #Popular Culture#Popular Culture

“ Helen Keller:You are a wonderful creature — the most wonderful in the world. #Humankind#Humankind

“ Helen Keller:I, too, can work, and because I love to labor with my head and my hands, I am an optimist in spite of all. I used to think I should be thwarted in my desire to do something useful. But I have found out that though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to me is endless. #Optimism#Optimism

“ Helen Keller:Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought! Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder! Strike against preparedness that means death and misery to millions of human beings! Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction! Be heroes in an army of construction! #Universe#Universe

“ Helen Keller: We 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. #Apathy#Apathy

“ Helen Keller:When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun. #Life and Living#Life and Living

“ Helen Keller: What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self. #Blindness#Blindness

“ Helen Keller:Sure, the world is full of trouble. But, as long as we have people undoing trouble, we have a pretty good world. #Marriage #Marriage

“ Helen Keller: I sometimes wonder if the hand is not more sensitive to the beauties of sculpture than the eye. I should think the wonderful rhythmical flow of lines and curves could be more subtly felt than seen. Be this as it may, I know that I can feel the heart-throbs of the ancient Greeks in their marble gods and goddesses. #Sculptures#Sculptures

“ Helen Keller:I had now the key to all language, and I was eager to learn to use it. Children who hear acquire language without any particular effort; the words that fall from others' lips they catch on the wing, as it were, delightedly, while the little deaf child must trap them by a slow and often painful process. But whatever the process, the result is wonderful. Gradually from naming an object we advance step by step until we have traversed the vast distance between our first stammered syllable and the sweep of thought in a line of Shakespeare. #Children#Children

“ Helen Keller:We would never learn to be patient if there were only joy in the world. #Patience#Patience

“ Helen Keller:The only real blind person at Christmas-time is he who has not Christmas in his heart. We sightless children had the best of eyes that day in our hearts and in our finger-tips. We were glad from the child's necessity of being happy. The blind who have outgrown the child's perpetual joy can be children again on Christmas Day and celebrate in the midst of them who pipe and dance and sing a new song! #Slang#Slang

“ Helen Keller:I want to say to those who are trying to learn to speak and those who are teaching them: Be of good cheer. Do not think of to-day's failures, but of the success that may come to-morrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere, and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles — a delight in climbing rugged paths, which you would perhaps never know if you did not sometime slip backward — if the road was always smooth and pleasant. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost. Sometime, somewhere, somehow we shall find that which we seek. We shall speak, yes, and sing, too, as God intended we should speak and sing. #Success#Success

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