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Your Quotes for 27 June 2005 - Helen Keller

Helen Adams Keller was born at Tuscumbia, Alabama on this day in 1880. She was a bright and attractive child until she fell sick at 19 months with "brain fever," now believed to have been meningitis. She wasn't expected to live, after recovering she had lost all vision and hearing. Over the next few years her temper made her difficult to live with. With the full-time help of Anne Sullivan, Helen learned to communicate several different ways, and as her world opened up again her manners improved. By age eight she was a celebrity, when she graduated from Radcliffe in 1904 she was the first deaf and blind person to acquire a bachelors degree. She spent the rest of her life raising funds and consciousness for the improvement of treatment of the blind.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition aspired, and success achieved.

I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.

Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.

No loss of flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
     - All from Helen Keller, 1880 - 1968

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