Day Dreamers
April 30, 2008 by Kaosar (Raatkiranii)
Photograph by carf
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
-Thomas Edward Lawrence
"A Year with Rumi: Daily Readings" by Coleman Barks
"O wave! Plunge headlong into the dark seas,
And change thyself with many a twist and turn;
Thou wast not born for tile solace of the shore;
Arise, untamed, and find a path for thyself."
- Allama Muhammad Iqbal
Dreamers and Idealists usually change the world thanks to both their ideas and their will to make those ideas a reality. I have always thought of that when I read that quote from T.E Lawrence, and I am very fond of that quote.
Mina24 - I agree with you. It is to the dreamers and idealists that we owe most realities that once used to be considered far off dreams.