Irving Townsend Quotes

We who choose to surround ourselves with lives even more temporary than our own live within a fragile circle, easily and often breached. Unable to accept its awful gaps, we still would live no other way. We cherish memory as the only certain immortality, never fully understanding the necessary plan.

Could the purr be anything but contemplative?

It was not I who was teaching my cat to gather rosebuds, but she who was teaching me.

We who choose to surround ourselves with lives even more temporary than our own life, live within a fragile circle, easily and often breached. Unable to accept its awful gaps, we still would live no other way. We cherish memory as the only certain immortality never fully understanding the necessary plan.