Leo Buscaglia Quotes

Everybody needs hugs.

I've always thought of beauty therapy, 'alternative' treatments and the like as the female equivalent of brothels - for essentially self-deceiving people who feel a bit hollow and have to pay to be touched.

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

She'll have to get over it, then. Are you going to let her drop out of Dauntless for a stupid reason like not being able to walk?" Zeke is quiet for a few seconds. His eyes shift over my face, and he squints, as if weighing and measuring me. Then he turns and bends and wraps his arms around me. it's been so long since someone hugged me that I stiffen. Then I relax, and let the gesture force warmth over my body.

Hugs are great, but - better than drugs? Come on. Let me put it to you this way: I never drove to Harlem at 4 a.m. to get somebody to hug me.

But please hug and kiss me, everyone, and don't mind my dress, I want a great many crumples of this sort put into it today.

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

She had a lot of hugs to give, but not enough people to give them to.

I love therapy. I swear by therapy. I couldn't exist without therapy.

People I've never spoken to before come up to me and give me a hug.

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

Friends are the best to turn to when you're having a rough day.

Kiss me out of desire, but not consolation.

But since I'm single, it's nice to get a kiss where I can.

Meditation has changed so many aspects of my health that when I don't do it, I feel awful.

I can use all the hugs I can get.

I need specifically love, affection, people to touch me all the time. Because otherwise, I don't really - I don't cope very well. On 'Morgan,' everything is shot from the other side of the glass, so I was alone in a soundproof room watching everybody but being completely separate from whatever was going on.

I am a hug-and-kiss person.

Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time!

Everyone wants a hug and kiss. It translates into any language.

She is sitting on frozen ground wrapped in a blanket, her pale skin shining. She smiles and she stands and without words, she steps forward, opens the blanket, envelops me within it and within her and within myself. She kisses my cheek, the one not torn, she wraps me and she holds me. Her arms are thin but strong. She whispers in my ear, "I'm glad you're here.

When I get that feeling, I want some sexual healing.

I go running. I go into nature. I really alleviate lot of emotional stress, any kind of stress I'm going through - exercise is my favorite medicine.

Practicing regular, mindful breathing can be calming and energizing and can even help with stress-related health problems ranging from panic attacks to digestive disorders.

To be loved, I think, is the thing that gets you up in the morning.