Helen+Keller

=Helen Keller =  ​  Helen Adams Keller was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama, USA on June 27th, 1880. She died when she was 87 years old, on June 1st, 1968. When she was nineteen months old, she contracted a illness that left her blind and deaf. However, she was able to communicate with the cook's daughter who could understand Helen's signs. When she was 6, her father took her to a specialist in Washington D.C., who sent Anne Sullivan to teach Helen. She played an important part in Helen's life. Sullivan taught Helen by spelling words on her palm. For example, Sullivan spelt W-A-T-E-R on Helen's palm while trickling water on her hand, giving her the idea of "water". Anne Sullivan was not only Helen's teacher, but also her great friend. She watched Helen grow up and was her constant companion. She was the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.

She was inspired by Ragnhild K å  ta, who was a deafblind girl who learned to speak. This had encouraged Helen to learn to speak.

The frost King (1891), Out of the Dark (1913), Light in My Darkness (1927), The story of My life (1903) She wrote 12 books in total.
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 **//Quotes from Helen Keller://** Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. 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. Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained. I never fight, except against difficulties. Tolerance is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle. Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain. My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges, and enabled me to walk serene and happy in the shadow cast by my deprivation. The million little things that drop into your hands The small opportunities each day brings He leaves us free to use or abuse And goes unchanging along His silent way. "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, 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 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 something that I can do.  " "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."

Wikipedia: Helen Keller - 14 Oct 2009 - [] Helen Keller Quotes - 11 Oct 2009 - [] Helen Keller - 18 Nov 2009 - []
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I think that being successful is having tried the best that you can do and being happy for what you have/achieved. To be loved, cared, and respected by others, and to love, care, and have respect for others. To be successful, i think we need to be able to let go, focus, have coach ability, commitment, and action. The favourable or prosperous termination of attempts or endeavors; or the attainment of wealth, position, honors, or the like. They do not have a goal, or their goal may not be what they really want. Sometimes, people are also lazy and do not try hard enough to achieve their goals. We should achieve our full potential and try our best in everything so as to achieve our goals. If we do not do so, and instead procrastinate and be "lazy", we would not be able to achieve what we want.
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