Paulo Coelho Quotes

I've always had a fascination with hugging (I'm not really particular about who or what it is I'm embracing as long as there's a “squish” factor).

Everybody needs hugs.

The recommended daily requirement for hugs is: four per day for survival, eight per day for maintenance, and twelve per day for growth.

I'll put it out there: I love getting hugs.

One of the ways we interact with other human beings and form social bonds is through touch, and probably most of us are not aware of the extreme importance of touch.

There's nothing like being hugged or held or just anything as simple as that.

I hug employees all the time. I'm a huge contact person. Touch is an extremely important part of the human condition.

I love hugging people. I still hug everybody in my meet-and-greet lines.

When I'm dancing with any woman, I immediately get rid of intimacy barriers. I just give her a big hug and crack on.

We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.

Diet and supplements and exercise programs aren't what is achieving longevity. Having a faith-based community can add four to 14 years.

Being cuddly has nothing to do with size.

I'm a very physical person. I hug people more so than shake hands.

I love touching. I always touch people.

Humans need to touch each other. We need to look at each other… We are human creatures, meant to be linked… So, yes, it's a gift for me to be able to look at somebody that I know or don't know, that I love or maybe not love, and to be able to connect.

You know when you first meet someone and they shake your hand? Hugging is how I shake hands.

I'm a hugger and a lover and a dancer!

What once was cuddled must learn to kiss The cold wonn's mouth. That's all the mystery.

Just hold me please,” she replied. I’d hold her forever if I could.

Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love. This is something else I've discovered for myself very recently. I present it to you as a hypothesis: Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis. And I say that the mind absorbed in and involved in itself as a self-centered end, to the exclusion of human relationships, can only lead to violence and pain.

Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism.

When it's cold & dark at night, and we're alone together, I long to take you in my arms, and cuddle you forever.

In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other.

In the absence of touching and being touched, people of all ages can sicken and grow touched starved. Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.

Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life.