Sarah Dessen Quotes

We can't always agree on everything.

Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.

You can like somebody without agreeing with all of their policies.

Reasonable people can have differences.

Well, because we're so different as people. And it's that difference that probably also makes it easy to stay together, because we don't get in each others way.

Until we learn to honor and respect what other people believe, I think we are doomed.

You don't get unity by ignoring the questions that have to be faced.

We must learn that we can disagree with each other without becoming deadly enemies.

I have differences with every single human being I know, but that difference shouldn’t define our relationship.

We need not think alike to love alike.

I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them.

Try and understand--there are views other than yours.

I think it's important to understand people can disagree on things, and still move forward.

We also need the world, even though many times we don't agree with it.

Not everybody's gonna get your vision.

If tolerance is the best we can do in this moment, then by all means let's be tolerant. But by stopping there, by merely tolerating each other, we miss so much.

Yeah, you can disagree with someone and still be cool - that's a thing!

I am tolerant. I want to understand other points of view.

It's always very important that you can completely disagree with someone, but it doesn't fundamentally mean that they are bad people.

It's OK for two sides to disagree. It's perfectly fine. It's normal.

When you can agree on one thing, you should have no expectation that suddenly a person is converted to your way of thinking. You have to be willing to be frustrated constantly.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do?

It gets to be a problem when I decide one position should be the law for everybody. In public life, we [people] have to find a way to live together even though we disagree - and some things we will never agree on. But we've got to leave this I'm-going-to-kill-you-because-you-don't-believe-what-I-believe attitude behind.

If you meet a sectary, or a hostile partisan, never recognize the dividing lines; but meet on what common ground remains,--if onlythat the sun shines, and the rain rains for both; the area will widen very fast, and ere you know it the boundary mountains, on which the eye had fastened, have melted into air.

I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.