Winter skies wink at me

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.
~Annie Dillard

Loneliness

What shall I do with all the days and hours
That must be counted ere I see thy face?
How shall I charm the interval that lowers
Between this time and that sweet time of grace?
~Frances Anne Kemble

Pounding the pavement

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
~Robert Louis Stevenson

Churches

How can the Church be received as a trustworthy guide in the invisible,
which falls into so many errors in the visible?
~John W. Draper

On life

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress

except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.
~Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

The long way home

We live in a very tense society. We are pulled apart... and we all need to learn how to pull ourselves together....
I think that at least part of the answer lies in solitude.
~Helen Hayes