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Quotes About Reality

The harsh truth that this is the only life we have should make us try and improve it for as many people as possible.
~ Ibn Warraq
At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.
~ Ibrahim Babangida
I don't rhyme about guns I ain't shot Hoes I ain't caught Or shit I ain't bought.
~ Ice T
There is no such thing as a normal family so don't trip off it, just deal with it.
~ Unknown
One thing I learned on New Jack City is that when you're making a movie, the trick is to make it feel real but not be
~ Unknown
Your ego and reality sometimes fight each other. Reality is staring you in the face, but your ego doesn't want to accept it.
~ Unknown
I call the PAEI the Textbook Manager because one finds him only in textbooks.1 At this point, what should be clear is that no one person behaves like a PAEI. The textbooks that describe management assume a perfect person who does not exist.
~ Unknown
Everybody thinks it's going to be so glamorous, so cool, you're on 'Glee ' you know, a hit show or whatever.
~ Idina Menzel
When people believe that the form is more important than the Truth, they will not find truth, but will stay with form.
~ Idries Shah
The person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality.
~ Idries Shah
Because there is a word for perfection, people will always imagine that they know it.
~ Idries Shah
In the distorting mirror of your mind, an angel can seem to have a devil's face.
~ Idries Shah
Voice in the night A voice whispered to me last night: 'There is no such thing as a voice whispering in the night!
~ Idries Shah
Many people who are in reality dead are walking in the streets; many who are in their graves are in reality alive.
~ Idries Shah
The existence of relative truth does not prove the non-existence of universal truth.
~ Idries Shah
Sufis deny the absolute reality of time, space and physical form. These things are both relative and local. They only appear to be absolute.
~ Idries Shah
The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep.
~ Idries Shah
Because sugar is not arsenic, many graves are full.
~ Idries Shah
To say "yes" to the Sufi way is to say "no" to imagined escapes.
~ Idries Shah
It is not always a question of the Emperor having no clothes on. Sometimes it is, 'Is that an Emperor at all?
~ Idries Shah
Wisdom Sufian said: 'The wisdom which is invisible but which sustains is a hundred times better than the appearance of wisdom, for that has itself to be sustained.
~ Idries Shah
P: ¿Cuál es el error fundamental del hombre? R: Pensar que está vivo, cuando simplemente se ha dormido en la antesala de la vida.
~ Idries Shah
it was being written in the East that 'Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality'.
~ Idries Shah
Disappointment cannot exist without expectation. "The expected apricot is never as sweet when it reaches the mouth.
~ Idries Shah