Vivek Murthy Quotes

We benefit from doing nothing, from going out to play, from giving from the heart and spending time in nature. Most of all we benefit from having healthy, strong, and loving relationships with other people and from exercising the altruistic parts of ourselves.

Social support is everything.

As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.

When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.

You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae.

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed.

Money doesn't make people happy. People make people happy.

I am thankful to all the people who have loved and listened to me.

I have a good family. I have good friends. I have people that actually care about my wellbeing as opposed to just work and just need me for work or whatever. Like, people that genuinely look out for me and my health, knowing how much work I put in.

If you are not happy, you will never be able to give happiness to others.

Altruism raises your mood because it raises your self-esteem, which increases happiness. Plus, giving to others gets you outside of yourself and distracts you from your problems.

I think the most important thing in the whole world is love and relationships, and if you don't have them it's quite bad.

Don't take your friends for granted or that everyone is going to be OK.

You breathed on me and made my life a richer one to live, when I was deep in poverty you taught me how to give. Dried the tears up from my dreams and pulled me from my hole, quenched my thirst and satisfied the burning in my soul.

Jessi is a great person. She really is. She's been a friend to me all through all my bad times, and she's understood what I was doing. She came up with that one saying, which was great.

I enjoy what I'm able to give my family.

I must thank my good friend Nigel Brennan. His strength of character in the midst of extreme hardship inspired me during the darkest days. Despite our separation, he always managed to find small ways to remind me that there are gentlemen in the world, even when I was surrounded by just the opposite.

I'd rather have happiness than money. People ask for it. Sometimes when I don't have it. I make other people's problems my problem because they want me to; they ask me to.

I think love and beauty are what life is all about.

I just want to be a good friend to people, that's all.

What people don't realize is that everybody needs support, one way or another.