Unlike many other illnesses, what I find profoundly empowering about addressing loneliness is that the ultimate solution to loneliness lies in each… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
Emotions are a source of power, and that's what science tells us. But many people I encounter have been led to think… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
Empathy has the power to bring together people who would otherwise never meet. It has the power to teach us and to… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
There are several factors in modern society that contribute to loneliness. One is that we are more mobile than we have been… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
We can no longer remain within our exam rooms and ignore what happens in our communities. As physicians and dentists, we must… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
Emotional well-being is more than the absence of a mental illness. It's that resource within each of us which allows us to… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
As all of us know, health is deeply intertwined with culture: what we eat, how active we are, how much we sleep.… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
While there are relatively few extreme introverts or extroverts, most of us lean in one direction or the other. If we lean… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
I think of emotional well-being as a resource within each of us that allows us to do more and to perform better.… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
Science tells us more and more now that there is a strong connection between emotional well-being and health outcomes, and that you… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
I think people often forget how powerful they are. Sometimes it just takes one voice to save a life. When we speak up we… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
We don't do enough to help older people recognize how much they matter. — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
When I was Surgeon General, I spent a lot of time talking to people in living rooms and town halls all across the country,… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
We can experience an erosion of self-esteem when we're lonely, as we come to believe that it's because we're not likable or because something… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
Climate change poses a serious, immediate and global threat to health. — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
I trained in internal medicine, and I expected most of my time would be spent on diabetes or heart disease or cancer. What I… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
I do not intend to use the Surgeon General's Office as a bully pulpit for gun control. — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
We know that chronic loneliness has consequences. It certainly depresses our mood. And in terms of our health, people who struggle with loneliness also… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
You can be surrounded by many people but still feel quite lonely if you don't have strong connections and if you feel you can't… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
When people tell you that you're less-than and that you don't matter and that you're inferior, you internalize some of that. — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
Service is a powerful pathway of getting out of loneliness. It takes the focus off of you and puts it onto someone else. — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
