Love Quotes and Sayings

Helen Keller was born, Helen Adams Keller on June 27, 1880 and lived till June 1, 1968. She was an American author, activist and lecturer and she was deaf blind. Helen keller was the first deafblind person to graduate from college. She was also a fine writer. She was famous for being an inspirational author and activist, dispite the fact that she was both deaf and blind from the age of 19 months.

One of Keller’s earliest pieces of writing was “The Frost King” (1891). There were allegations that this story had been plagiarized from The Frost Fairies by Margaret Canby. An investigation into the matter revealed that Keller may have suffered from cryptomnesia, having once had Canby’s story read to her, only to forget about it, although the memory had remained hidden in her subconscious.

At the age of 23, Keller wrote her autobiography, The Story of My Life (1903), with help from Sullivan and her husband, John Macy. It includes letters that Keller wrote and the story of her life up to age 21.

Her spiritual autobiography, My Religion, was published in 1927 and re-issued as Light in my Darkness. It advocates the teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg, the controversial mystic who claimed to have witnessed the Last Judgment and second coming of Jesus Christ, and the movement named after him, Swedenborgianism.

In total, she wrote 12 books and numerous articles. [source wikipedia]

I have collected some quotes and sayings that Helen Keller left us.
?€œWhen 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.?€

“If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain for the light that does not visit my eyes and the music that does not ring in my ears. I should beg night and day and never be satisfied. I should sit apart in awful solitude, a prey to fear and despair. But since I consider it a duty to myself and to others to be happy, I escape a misery worse than any physical deprivation.”

“Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in, and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding-line, and had no way of knowing how near the harbour was.”
?€œOptimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.?€

And such motivational quote as
?€œAlone we can do so little; together we can do so much.?€

And who better than Helen Keller to have expressed this sayings, ?€œThe best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.?€

?€œThe highest result of education is tolerance.?€

“I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.”

On Effort, she wrote:
“When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.”

With lesser sense of organs than most of us, she knew more about senses than all of us. On senses she wrote that, ” Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across thousands of miles and all the years we have lived.”

And she had an opinion on security: “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.”

On knowledge, she said, “It was my teacher’s genius, her quick sympathy, her loving tact which made the first years of my education so beautiful. It was because she seized the right moment to impart knowledge that made it so pleasant and acceptable to me.”

A women of strong Character, here is what she had to say about Character, “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.”

“Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.”

“I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.”

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