Julie Kagawa Quotes

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.

You can't change anyone else, but people do change in relationship to your change.

I'm somebody's ex-wife, and I did things that drove him nuts. And now I'm somebody's girlfriend, for many years, and I've got different things that drive him nuts.

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.

As for adjustments, I think every relationship changes every day.

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

If you study both 'Gilligan' and 'Brady,' you will see they are based on a similar philosophy: that it's possible for different kinds of people to learn to live together, either in a family or stuck on an island with no escape.

You kind of restructure your whole personality to be in a healthy relationship.

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.

The condition of our survival in any but the meagerest existence is our willingness to accommodate ourselves to the conflicting interests of others, to learn to live in a social world.

What I really like about Woody Allen's films is that there's a real investment in personal relationships. There is the idea that this is a serious concern worth making serious art about - how we love other people and how we can negotiate our relationships with them.

I've learnt that if you can't get rid of something, you have to find a way to live with it.

Every partner you get is so different, you learn a lot from each of them.

Whenever I'm talking about relationships, it's always at least three things. It's my relationship with myself, my relationship with God or an idea, and then usually somebody, a real person. I try to operate on all three levels at the same time, and it's difficult, but I never want to have a break-up song or something like that.

Some women have the best husbands. Others make the best of the husbands they have.

Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.

There are some people that you cannot change, you must either swallow them whole or leave them alone.

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.

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

We must take our friends as they are.

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

I guess you kind of got to realize that once you in a marriage, whatever it is, you gotta deal with it. Not necessarily that you got to accept it, but you have to deal with it and try your best to make it work for you, for the both of you.

Politics isn't what defines a person, and it shouldn't define a relationship. I made the mistake of letting that intrude on my relationships.

The thing is, every relationship is different, and when you start talking about your problems, other people tend to talk about theirs.