Virginia Satir Quotes

Children require affection. That's very important.

When infants aren't held, they can become sick, even die. It's universally accepted that children need love, but at what age are people supposed to stop needing it? We never do. We need love in order to live happily, as much as we need oxygen in order to live at all.

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

I don't need a man. But I'm happier with one. I like to have someone I can touch and squeeze and kiss. But I don't fold up and die if I don't have a man around.

I'm sort of getting into the idea of nourishing your inner aspect and doing that by investing in your family and making a meal and creating time together.

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.

My only self-confidence and satisfaction comes from the people that I do meet; I have fondness for people. I mean, I like to hug. And I also like to be hugged.

I love touching. I always touch people.

If we're having a tough day, we'll bring the babies on, and suddenly, these crew guys who have, like, tattoos all over their necks are cooing and fawning.

It doesn't matter how much his mother loves him; love is not enough to keep any of us alive.

Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism.

It felt so good just to be held

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

Family is more than DNA, more than who we used to be, more than we can imagine we will become.

Food and love are all intertwined at our core level. It can be a very nurturing, wonderful, loving thing.

As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

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

Hugs make you feel psychologically more secure and together.

I need to go where I feel loved.

Every woman's path is difficult, and many mothers were as equipped to raise children as wire monkey mothers. I say that without judgment: It is, sadly, true. An unhealthy mother's love is withering.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

I've always wanted to be a mom because I want to give a kid all of the magical gifts my mom gave to me, such as love and friendship. She and I had this incredible connection that was so unbelievable.

The reality is that we communicate with every part of our being, and there are times when we must use it all. When someone needs us, he or she needs all of us. There's no text that can replace a loving touch when someone we love is hurting.