Katy Perry Quotes

I think sometimes when children grow up, their parents grow up. Mine grew up with me. We coexist. I don't try to change them anymore, and I don't think they try to change me. We agree to disagree.

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.

I've had this conversation with friends who have had challenging relationships with one or another parent. The only thing I can say is what I feel: The other person isn't going to change. That is who they are.

I try to listen to my children. I try to change with my children.

The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.

I went from resenting my mother-in-law to accepting her, finally to appreciating her. What appeared to be her diffidence when I was first married, I now value as serenity.

The key is allowing your partner to be who they are and not having expectations that really have nothing to do with the person you married.

Learning to not be selfish is what has changed in me the most since being married.

It's important to fall in love with someone you don't want to change.

I don't think I should be giving out relationship advice! You have to accept each other for who they are and what they will be able to modify in their behavior and what you can modify in your behavior to create a better relationship.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing - hopefully.

I'm not asking you to be tolerant of each other. Tolerance is for cowards. Understand each other.

When you love someone, you don't try to change them.

We can be better, we can be wiser, we can be more kind. Yes we have to change. We have to grow up and stop acting like 10 years old. Yes there is much to do, much to see, much to go into.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

Every relationship you have, you're learning and growing and taking something from that.

My brother and I have too good a relationship to spoil it by working together.

I've undoubtedly offended people, but in the end, I've learned the people that will understand are the people I want to connect to, anyway.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Friendship is something that is cultivated.

Maturity implies otherness... The art of living is the art of living with.

I hope it's enabling me to deal with another human being who's more important to me than I am.

It is not necessary to deny another's reality in order to affirm your own.

Relationships do change throughout the course of your life, and I always think in terms of relationships changing and evolving rather than starting and stopping.

I think understanding is the way to gain perspective - and therefore can live among those hideous realities. You can live with them.