David Furnish Quotes

With any relationship that you have, don't lose yourself in it.

It's important in a relationship to have moments when you do your own thing.

It's great when you find somebody you're compatible with, but I'm really into separate bedrooms. You live your life and I live mine.

How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.

A band is like a marriage, and if you're in a marriage with someone, and you lose yourself in that marriage, the relationship is over, really.

I figure when you get married, it doesn't matter how much you earn or how much your husband earns, just as long as everything you do for the house is together, while still reserving some part of yourself to be yourself.

I'm always battling how to be in a relationship while simultaneously maintaining my independence and my career.

I love you so much. I love you enough that I want to stay separate from you. You're an extraordinary man, Frank Wright. I could so easily lose myself in your world and never make a world of my own. And where would that leave us? We'd both be bored stupid.

It's important to have your own space. I've never trusted people who do everything together. I call them "Kool-Aid Couples," because it's like they drank the same Kool-Aid and it's drugged them into constantly gazing into each other's eyes.

However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself. Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.

I couldn't bear a marriage in which one partner hinges on the other.

You don't wanna be around your family constantly.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

I think the hardest thing to do in a relationship is something for yourself.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

I talk to my friends and, you know, they all seem to get relationships that aren't right. You kind of want someone who is not at your beck and call but loves the idea of being in a relationship and what that entails.

Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her.

No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.

Yes, I'm very close to my family. And being that close to your family, I think you also struggle with how to become your own person.

Two halves don't make a whole. Two wholes make a whole. In my relationship, I was giving myself away to make the relationship better, but in actuality, wasn't doing better by doing that. I became less of a man.

It's easy to get wrapped up in sharing everyday life with a partner. It's fun to get lost in love and romance. It's the best. But holding on to yourself while doing that is the most important thing.

I do know what my family has done for me, but they do need to give me some space to let me be myself. There would be some things I would handle differently.

At some level I've got to have a private life.

The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.