Sherry Turkle Quotes

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

I don't think it's good to try and change anyone. The trick and the mystery - of relationships and life in general - is to learn to live with the bits you don't like.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

You gotta do what you gotta do. And I had to figure that out, and I used to - I couldn't stand the media, but I realized they have a job. They gotta do what they have to do.

Tolerance is a good cornerstone on which to build human relationships.

Staying together is a challenge. We all have to accept qualities in other people that aren't always exactly what we want or need.

And I have learned now to live with it, learned when to expect it, how to outwit it, even how to regard it, when it does come, as more friend than lodger. We have reached a certain understanding, my migraine and I.

Evolution is not something to be feared. It's to be celebrated, embraced, and understood.

If you persist in trying to attain what is never attained (It is Tao's gift), if you persist in making effort to obtain what effort cannot get, if you persist in reasoning about what cannot be understood, you will be destroyed by the very thing you seek. To know when to stop, to know when you can get no further by your own action, this is the right beginning!

Not judging people is the fastest way to peace.

We have not to construct human nature afresh, but to take it as we find it, and make the best of it.

Even from when I was in grade school or church or wherever, I was always like: we're one, and we should respect each other and grow as one. And respect each other's diversity, of course.

The best thing you can do for yourself is to accept other people’s behavior and the choices they make. You may not agree with them, you may even wish them to do things differently, but accept it. Just as you would appreciate other people accepting the choices that you make.

Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.

I do believe that part of us ending racism is us seeing each other's humanity and learning to love each other, even if we look different or worship differently or live differently.

In all relationships, regardless of their nature, there comes that moment when you understand that there are some things you will never understand. When you are standing in that moment, just be right with it.

We can build a society grounded on friendship and our common humanity - a society founded on tolerance. That is the only road open to us.

The cut worm forgives the plow.

Why can't we learn to live with how we are? And whatever anybody chooses is okay by the rest of us?

Man, even now, can do wonders to animals: my cat and dog live together in my house and seem to like it. It may have been one of man's functions to restore peace to the animal world, and if he had not joined the enemy he might have succeeded in doing so to an extent now hardly imaginable.

Love your fellow, and not just those who agree with you.

You have to embrace the world if you want to live in it now.

My kids are from different countries, but there's an understanding, you don't have to like a country just because you were born in it. You need to respect all countries. And be very open to each other's, of course.

The key to happiness ... is tolerance of those who do not do as you do.

Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone’s lifestyle, you must fear or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense. You don’t have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.