Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
What this quote means
However delayed a dream feels, the only place to start is the present. Shelley collapses someday into the one day you actually have.
Context
English novelist who, at just nineteen, wrote Frankenstein, a founding work of science fiction and a meditation on creation and responsibility.
This line is among the quotes by Mary Shelley that readers return to on motivation — a small, portable reminder to carry into the morning.
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