Fake friends are like shadows: always near you at your brightest moments, but nowhere to be seen at your darkest hour True friends are like stars, you don't always see them but they are always there. Unknown More Quotes by Unknown More Quotes From Unknown Small boys become big men through the influence of big men who care about small boys. Unknown boys father son Not every father gets a chance to start his son off in his own footsteps. Unknown chance father son Maybe those nihilist philosophers are right; maybe this is all we can expect of the universe, a relentless crushing of life and spirit, because the equilibrium state of the cosmos is death. Unknown crush spirit nihilism You and I are more than friends. We're like a really small gang. Unknown one-line one-line-friendship gang A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more. Unknown one-line-friendship I don't have an attitude, I have standards for the people who are supposed to be my friends. Unknown one-line attitude people We are like a snowflake all different in our own beautiful way. Unknown snowflake different beautiful A best friend is a sister that destiny forgot to give you. Unknown one-line destiny giving No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to. Unknown appreciate hard-work dream Fake friends believe in rumors. Real friends believe in you. Unknown fake real believe My best friend is the only person in the world who could stop me from crying. Unknown one-line my-best-friend world How lucky I am to have known someone who was so hard to say goodbye to Unknown one-line-friendship friendship-memories He'd always had a quickening of the heart when he crossed into Arizona and beheld the cactus country. This was as the desert should be, this was the desert of the picture books, with the land unrolled to the farthest distant horizon hills, with saguaro standing sentinel in their strange chessboard pattern, towering supinely above the fans of ocotillo and brushy mesquite. Unknown heart country book Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization. Many of these people are lunatics, but they are not the lunatic fringe. Unknown nihilism people world Scientists are skeptics. It's unfortunate that the word 'skeptic' has taken on other connotations in the culture involving nihilism and cynicism. Really, in its pure and original meaning, it's just thoughtful inquiry. Unknown thoughtful taken nihilism The middle way is a view of life that avoids the extreme of misguided grasping born of believing there is something we can find, or buy, or cling to that will not change. And it avoids the despair and nihilism born from the mistaken belief that nothing matters, that all is meaningless. Unknown despair nihilism believe Nihilism is.not only the belief that everything deserves to perish; but one actually puts one shoulder to the plough; one destroys. Unknown deserve belief nihilism I think human consciousness, is a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware, nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself, we are creatures that should not exist by natural law. We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self; an accretion of sensory, experience and feeling, programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody, when in fact everybody is nobody. Maybe the honorable thing for our species to do is deny our programming, stop reproducing, walk hand in hand into extinction, one last midnight - brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal. Unknown brother feelings thinking The philosophy that prepares a revolution and the sentiment that underpins the philosophy have, in every case the two pillars of nihilism and mysticism. Unknown revolution nihilism philosophy She soon learned, though, that giving weight to other people's opinions was creative nihilism; it was like being banished from the Land of No Words and exiled to the Land of All Bullshit. Unknown bullshit creative giving