Helen Adams Keller:
(Tuscumbia, Alabama, 27 June 1880 – Westport, Connecticut, 1 June 1968).
American writer and linguist.
When she was 19 months old, she became deaf and blind as a result of an illness. With the help of her teacher Anne Sullivan (1866-1936), she learned to communicate using the finger alphabet, spelling words in her hand, from shortly before the age of seven.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Death is no more than passing from one room to another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
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.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impuls to soar.
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
Life isn’t about people being nice to your face, it’s about people staying nice. Also behind your back.