Sherry Turkle Quotes

The pain is always bringing me a lesson. If I listen to the lesson when the pain is manageable, the pain won't get gargantuan and flatten me entirely, because I will have received the message at the center. I receive it as gently as I can, because the cruelest thing that I do to myself is try to push myself through an experience.

By being vulnerable, either with yourself or in the presence of another person, that’s where all growth and ultimate well-being comes from.

You have to be quite grounded, and I don't know what that is. Sometimes, that means being vulnerable.

When you know you're vulnerable, and you know... your strength and your weakness, you can see life with better perspective.

It's OK to feel pain and experience it. I'm not trying to fix myself. My suffering has given me so much.

I have had to learn and to understand that sometimes I can't be always be at my best.

If you read something bad about yourself and it stings you, I've learned that somewhere that's a judgment I'm holding about myself, so I'll try to work through that.

Some weak people are so sensible of their weakness as to be able to make a good use of it.

The thing I have to keep in mind and I try to keep in mind about myself, about anyone, is you do the best you can do at the time.

Do not try to be humble: learn humility.

In fact, I'm softer than I've ever been, including that unfortunate semester in high school when I simultaneously discovered Krispy Kreme and pot.

You have to learn to deal with your own, for want of a better word, insecurities, fears. They don't go away. And that's normal. It's human. You don't ever really want to lose that. What you want to do is learn to manage it and to work with yourself. But there's a part of you that has anticipation and fear. And so the important thing to know is that there's nothing wrong with that and that that's normal. You have to learn how to deal with it, certainly, but it doesn't keep you from doing it. And that doesn't go away ever.

I've never found therapy to be a sign of weakness; I've found the opposite to be true. The willingness to have a mirror held up to you definitely requires strength.

Believe in yourself and try not to take anything personally.

We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?

I feel like we're attracted to paths in life that force us to look at our weaknesses or deficiencies as human beings. Not to get all deep on you, but that's how I feel.

You can't heal what you don't acknowledge.

Self-awareness is value-free. It isn't scary. It doesn't imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain.

By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others.

If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.

To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.

I'm grateful for my brokenness. I'm grateful for my humility.

I have my flaws and my issues, past and present and who knows what will happen in the future. I want people to know I'm vulnerable too and each one of us is.