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 a dream. And in the highest vision of a soul, a waking angel stirs.
Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
Your circumstances may be unhappy, but they shall not remain so if you only perceive an ideal and strive to reach it. You can't travel within and stand still without. Here is a youth hard pressed by poverty and labor. But he dreams of better things. He thinks of intelligence, or refinement, of grace and beauty.