Helen Keller… A Shout in Frustration’s Face!

She wasn’t born blind and deaf.

At 19-month age, a disease attacked her leaving her blind & deaf. Strange thing. How can a blind woman lead huge numbers of “sighted” people, and open their eyes!

Who is Helen Keller?

Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, activist and lecturer. She was the first deaf-blind person to graduate from college.

I first heard her name from a trainer who quoted one of her super-famous quotes. Couldn’t forget her after that.

She was a true inspirational creature, and still is. Here are the first set of Helen’s unforgotten quotes:

• 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.

• To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength un-defeatable.

• Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

• Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

• One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

• We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

• 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.

• 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.

• We can do anything we want if we stick to it long enough.

• What I am looking for is not out there; it is in me.

• The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart.

To be continued…

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