"I learned this, at least, by my experiment:
that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and
endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a
success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things
behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more
liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him;
or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favour in a more
liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of
beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the
universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude,
nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in
the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now
put the foundations under them."
H.D. Thoreau