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Quotes About Hugging

Hugging relieves stress, boosts feelings of closeness, and even squelches pain. In one study, people assigned to give five hugs each day for a month, aiming to hug as many different people as they could, became happier.
~ Gretchen Rubin
Then a white bullish real body wraps around, or engulfs, the prior period's black real body (hence its name). Another nickname is a "hugging line" for obvious reasons. (Maybe on Valentine's Day I will refer to the engulfing pattern as a hugging pattern.)
~ Steve Nison
I love hugging people. I still hug everybody in my meet-and-greet lines.
~ Taylor Swift
many people in our society, including children and youth, are touch-starved. Healthy touch is not well understood. We actually have schools where tiny toddlers whose impulse is to run up and hug a classmate or teacher are told not to touch; in return, the teachers and other caregivers are not allowed to touch the children. But it's simply unhealthy for a three-or four-year-old child to go eight hours without touching or hugging or playfully wrestling with another person.
~ Bruce D. Perry
It was so incredible meeting Lady Gaga. I mean I'm gaga for Gaga, literally. We kind of just each flew to each other like magnets after the ceremony ended and we were both just crying and hugging.
~ Amanda Gorman
but ah'm hugging Janey and thinking about how much a life can change in the time it takes tae fix up.
~ Irvine Welsh
I'm a hugger of both men and women. As it turns out that those are taken in an offensive manner, I need to have a greater sense of awareness of what I am doing, and we will correct that, and I am taking those steps.
~ Bob Filner
The Seinfeld motto: No learning, no hugging.
~ Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Can your heart swoop? That's what Billy wondered. In th first minutes on the porch with Papa when everyone was hugging and kissing and talking at once, that's what it felt like - it felt like Billy's heart was swooping inside him.
~ Kevin Henkes
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
~ Updike
Suddenly Simon grinned--that sudden, unexpected grin that flashed out even in the worst of circumstances, and which Isabelle loved--and held his arms out toward Jace. Jace shook his head. 'I don't care if I did just set myself on fire,' he said. 'I'm not hugging you.
~ Cassandra Clare
Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug ten people at a time.
~ Drew Barrymore, unverified
Chewbacca is lovely and all, but he's a gargantuan pillar of hair who smells not unlike a moist gundark's undercarriage. And all that nonsensical growling? And the hugging?
~ Chuck Wendig
I've noticed people in India have developed a habit of hugging around people. I don't understand it now. I wanted to be hugged when I was young. Now, if someone wants to hug me, I feel only claustrophobic.
~ Ruskin Bond
I could have spent my time hugging you or I could have spent my time telling you not to touch hot stoves or take candy from men. Which did you want?
~ Laurie Notaro
I pulled back because I am not a hugger. Never have been. When someone wraps their arms around me, I shut down and stand there with my eyes closed, waiting for it to be over.
~ David Sedaris
Hope is hugging me, holding me in its arms, wiping away my tears and telling me that today and tomorrow and two days from now I will be just fine and I'm so delirious I actually dare to believe it.
~ Unknown
We were comfort kissing, that's all. We wrapped our arms around each other for solace. Bear hugging. Squeezing the life out of each other as if we were trying to merge together. When at last we loosened our grip, in a strange way we were both more calm. Physically, at least. Not mentally.
~ Malorie Blackman
The Hamilton family was a bunch of hugging folks
~ J. Lynn
The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
~ George Eliot
I looked around out the driver's window of the hearse. It was Stills! We got out and hugged right there on Sunset Boulevard in the middle of traffic. Horns were honking! To us it seemed like everybody was celebrating! Something was happening, but we didn't know what it was. It was fucking Buffalo Springfield, that's what it was.
~ Neil Young
She nodded, concealing her emotion because she thought Kim might try to hug her again, and she was never going to get used to the casual frequency of American hugging.
~ Nell Freudenberger