Vivek Murthy Quotes

A good life depends on the strength of our relationships with family, friends, neighbours, colleagues and strangers.

I dont think there is anything on earth more wonderful than those wistful incomplete friendships one makes now and then in an hour's talk. You never see the people again, but the lingering sense of their presence in the world is like the glow of an unseen city at night--makes you feel the teemingness of it all.

Human relationships are primary in all of living. When the gusty winds blow and shake our lives, if we know that people care about us, we may bend with the wind ... but we won’t break.

Which is why we have spouses and children and parents and colleagues and friends, because someone has to know us better than we know ourselves. We need them to tell us. We need them to say, "I know you, Al. You are not the kind of man who.

I like people, for a little while.

Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.

I'm very interested, in all my books, in community, what binds people together, which I think is an obvious consequence of being the fourth of six children.

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

I don't believe in cutting out people from the past. It doesn't give strength; it just gives loneliness.

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

People care about others in their immediate network.

The key to longevity is to interact with other people.

Connections with other people affect not only the quality of our lives but also our survival.

The thing is, when you take photographs, you meet a lot of people but you don't actually know anybody. It is very quick, in and out, in a concentrated way.

You don't have to be in love all the time, but you need to be surrounded by people you have a genuine connection with.

I connect with very few close friends in real life.

Relationships can be about yourself, they can be about you and your god, you and your people, you and your family. It can be about a lot of different stuff. And it is.

There are people who come into our lives as welcome as a cool breeze in summer- and last about as long.

I am not a bibliophile but a humanophile: I look for rare human beings.

My support system is simple - people and time. The miracle of other people in your life.

We all act as hinges-fortuitous links between other people.

One faithful Friend is enough for a man's self, 'tis much to meet with such an one, yet we can't have too many for the sake of others.

Other people keep our souls alive, just like food and water does with our body.

To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence - - this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden.