“Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.”

— Helen Keller, Address to the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf (1896)

About Helen Keller

1880 – 1968

American author and activist, deaf and blind from infancy, author of "The Story of My Life".

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.”

“A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.”

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

“Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base.”

“The busy have no time for tears.”

“What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty!”

“Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature.”

“We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds.”

“Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.”