Helen Keller
American author, disability-rights advocate, lecturer, and political activist whose life — deafblind from the age of nineteen months and yet author of fourteen books, graduate of Radcliffe, and lifelong campaigner for women's suffrage, labor rights, and pacifism — became one of the most-told stories of the twentieth century. Born in 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama, her partnership with teacher Anne Sullivan, beginning when Keller was six, became the foundation for her education and is the central narrative of The Miracle Worker. Her quote 'The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart' remains one of the most-shared sentiments in American letters. She died in 1968 in Easton, Connecticut.
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Quotes by Helen Keller
111 quotes“In the silence of the universe, I have heard a still small voice.”
“Faith and love can move mountains. I have known both.”
“The greatest tragedy in life is people who have sight but no vision.”
“Sight without insight is blindness.”
“I will not be ashamed of my voice. I will not silence my conviction.”
“In the long sweep of history, the person who simply showed up made the difference.”
“Most of life is small kindnesses. They add up.”
“To be of use is the highest joy.”
“You and I are tested every day. The test is whether we will choose love.”
“Even in the dark, the heart sees what the eye cannot.”
“I have learned that to love is to be loved.”
“The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings.”
“It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike.”
“It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”
“Where there is love, the soul is at home.”
“In our deepest darkness, the light is also found.”
“Touch is the most direct sense.”
“The hand is more than five fingers; it is a heart.”
“In the silence, I have heard much.”
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