Portrait of Helen Keller. Library of Congress. Public domain.
Helen Keller, the American writer and social activist, I was born on a day like today in 1880. Was the first person deaf and blind to study and graduate from university. And with his decisive teacher anne sullivan, wrote several books about their experiences and gave numerous lectures and talks around the country, sponsoring and raising funds for the aid of the disabled. These are 20 of his phrases that he left us to remember his example of courage and self-improvement.
Helen Keller
Helen Adams Keller was not even two years old when lost sight and hearing due to illness. Slowly she learned the names of the objects she could touch, and also how to speak and listen with her hands.
The arrival of his teacher anne sullivan to teach her was decisive and her achievements with her led her to be admitted to the Radcliffe College, where he studied and graduated. There he began to write his autobiography, The story of my life, which was published in 1903 and is considered one of the most significant of all time. Other works among the more than 14 and 500 articles that he wrote were The open door, Love this life o The world i live in. She was also a great social activist.
Phrases
- Literature is my Utopia. There is no barrier of senses that can take away this pleasure.
- The books speak to me without impediments of any kind.
- How many times do we travel the same roads, read the same books, speak the same language, and yet our experiences are different!
- How insignificant my world would be without imagination.
- The best and most beautiful things in life cannot be seen or touched, they must be felt with the heart.
- I am just one person. But I am still a person. I can't do everything, but I can do something. I am not going to refuse to do the "something" that I can do.
- The night of blindness also has its wonders.
- The world without color or sound is made in terms of measurements, shapes and inherent qualities, since at least each object is presented through my fingers always keeping its exact position and not as the invertible image when reflected on the retina, which As I understand it, only your brain can restore it to its normal position through infinite and constant work.
- Security is more than anything a superstition. Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing.
- There is no king who did not have a slave among his ancestors, nor a slave who did not have a king among his own.
- Death is nothing more than passing from one room to another. However, there is a difference for me, you know? Because in the other room I will be able to see.
- The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they must be felt with the heart.
- In these dark and silent years, God has been using my life for a purpose that I do not know, but one day I will understand and then I will be satisfied.
- Many people get the wrong idea about true happiness. It is not achieved by satisfying your own desires, but by being faithful to a worthwhile task.
- When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but many times we look at the closed door for so long that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
- No pessimist has ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed into an undiscovered land, or opened a new hope in the human heart.
- Sight is the function of the eyes, but vision is the function of the heart.
- Keep your face towards the sunlight and you will not see the shadow.
- Optimism is the faith that leads to success. Nothing can be done without hope and trust.
- One should never consent to crawl when one feels the urge to fly.