“The dreamers are the saviours of the world. Humanity cannot forget its dreamers; it cannot let their ideals fade and die; it lives in them; it knows them as the -realities- which it shall one day see and know.
Composer, sculptor, painter, poet, prophet, sage, these are the makers of the afterworld, the architects of Heaven. The world is beautiful because they have lived; without them, laboring humanity would perish... He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it.
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil. The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.”
-As A Man Thinketh (1903) by James Allen