Hellen Keller was the first deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor’s degree. She was an American activist, lecturer and an author. She was born on June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama to Arthur H Keller and Kate Adams. In the year 1886, Keller’s mother — inspired by Charles Dicken’s ‘American Notes’ — sent Helen with her father to seek advice from J Julian Chisolm, who referred them to Alexander Graham Bell. Helen was admitted to the Perkins Institute for the Blind where she developed a 49-year-old relationship with Anne Sullivan, who became her teacher and lifelong companion.
Keller graduated from Radcliffe College after battling enormous difficulties. She is a supreme example of ‘where there is a will, there is a way’. She also founded the Hellen Keller International Organization with George Kessler — which is an organisation devoted to research in vision, health and nutrition.
On her birth anniversary, we bring to you 10 inspiring quotes by Hellen Keller:
* The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart.
* Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
* Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
* The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop
hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
* It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
* Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
* To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
* It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
* Literature is my utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my
book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
* 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.
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