Vivek Murthy Quotes

Intimacy can be about holding someone's hand. It could be about stroking their hair.

Non-human primates spend hours a day grooming each other. And with humans, touching is also important. It's a way to form bonds and connect in modern society. But you can also speed up the use of conscious purposes once you're aware of that, and it can be manipulated.

If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart.

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

A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience.

Physical contact is a human necessity.

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.

I like developing relationships.

Yes, I do touch. I believe that everyone needs that

Intimacy doesn't have all that much to do with backseats of cars. Real intimacy is brushing your teeth together.

There is a primal reassurance in being touched, in knowing that someone else, someone close to you, wants to be touching you. There is a bone-deep security that goes with the brush of a human hand, a silent, reflex-level affirmation that someone is near, that someone cares.

Life is too sweet and too short to express our affection with just our thumbs. Touch is meant for more than a keyboard.

I wish people would turn off their computers, go outside, talk to people, touch people, lick people, enjoy each other's company and smell each other on the rump.

Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.

I mean, I come from a hippie mentality where I just think to know someone, you need to look into their eyes. Eyes are so important. Until they start melon-balling eyes out, I won't be able to get to know someone another way.

I never dreamed I would have a job in which so many people could touch me and I could touch them.

If you can have a laugh with someone, you're then in each other's world.

If I meet pals, we do hug each other, and it's very nice, you know... it's something that's come on me late and became second nature, and it's first nature now!

I love touching. I always touch people.

'Orange' is fun. Even when we're doing super-intense, emotional, or physical stuff, we're having fun. We're checking in with each other; we know about each other's lives and know each other's families and relationships. We're really friends.

I think that sharing experiences with a person is very valuable, because it allows you to have a bond to become closer.

I try to make really close bonds with people.

The more time you spend with somebody, the more your relationship grows.

Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it empowers us to develop courage; to trust that courage and build bridges with it; to trust those bridges and cross over them so we can attempt to reach each other.

In the dark you can feel really close to a person. You can say whatever you want.