Words of Wisdom: Helen Keller (Part I)
Helen Keller was an American author and lecturer. The first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. Helen was helped by her teacher, Annie Sullivan and a movie was made about the two of them. Here are some of Helen Keller's thoughts:
- Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood
- Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either
- We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings
- Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose
- Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much
- One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar
- Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing
- Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged
- Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world
- The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart
- College isn't the place to go for ideas
- The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision
- We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough
- 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
- While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done
- Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it
- Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties
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