You are here to do something you are uniquely created for. No one else can do it like you can, that's why you're here
What you know not now you will know hereafter.
In 1792, my Sister told me, I was growing out of my senses.
The end of all things is at hand; that Satan's kingdom will be destroyed, and Satan chained down for a thousand years, and Christ's kingdom established upon earth.
New-Year's Day arriving, and the ministers, to whom I wrote, remaining silent, I consider their silence as evidence, that they cannot prove what I said not to be from the Lord, and have therefore published as I was directed.
I was now ordered to have my writings copied, and put into the printer's hand.
At the end of 1795 and beginning of 1796, I was ordered to write to the Church ministers.
It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.
Courage is the most important thing. . . Wake up yourselves and others. Control your mind and have firm determination. . . Be firm like a rock, deep and serious like the sea. Think of the earth as a mother. Have great courage and patience - and be not afraid of water, fire or great storms - face them bravely. Face the fire and it will turn to ice. This requires control of mind and a firm determination.
See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds. Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.