“So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart I shall say that life is good.”

— Helen Keller, Midstream: My Later Life (1929)

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.”

“Life often seems like a long shipwreck, of which the débris are friendship, fame, and love.”

“There is not love of life without despair about life.”

“When Life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.”

“The heart of life is a sphere quiet and serene, and the star that shines therein is fixed for evermore.”

“The mind weighs and measures but it is the spirit that reaches the heart of life and embraces the secret.”

“Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”