The American blind and deaf female writer Helen Keller lost her vision and hearing due to illness when she was one and a half years old. This is unimaginable and unbearable suffering for ordinary people. But Helen did not give in to fate.
She overcame her disability with strong perseverance, learned to speak, "obedient" with her fingers and mastered 5 kinds of characters. At the age of 24, she graduated with honors from the famous Radcliffe College for Women of Harvard University. From then on, she devoted her whole life to the cause of benefiting the world's blind and deaf people, and has been praised and praised by many national governments and people.
In 1959, the United Nations launched the "Helen Keller" campaign. Her autobiographical work "The Story of My Life" has become a classic work of English literature and has been translated into many languages ??and widely published.
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Helen Keller's famous sayings:
1. Darkness will make people cherish light more, and silence will make people love sound more.
2. Because in the long dark night of my life, the books I have read and the books others have read to me have become a great and bright beacon, revealing to me the human life and the human spirit. the deepest source.
3. The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they must be felt with the heart.
4. Love is intangible, but you can feel the sweetness it brings.
5. I can feel so much happiness just by touch, so if I can see it, how many more beautiful things I will find!
6. The greatest disaster in life is not the trauma of the past, but giving up the future.
7. Without hope, nothing can be accomplished.
8. All the atoms in my body are vibrators. I could guess what was going on every day by the vibrations I felt throughout the house.
9. Use your eyes like you will lose them tomorrow.
10. Death is just moving from this room to that room, but I may be different from other people, because I can see things with my eyes in that new room.
Reference: Helen Keller-Baidu Encyclopedia