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Touch seems to be such an important tool for enhancing social cooperation and affiliation that we have evolved a special physical route along which those subliminal feelings of social connection travel from skin to brain.

It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.

I think it's just a chemistry thing, feeling each other out. The more you play with each other, the better it's going to be.

Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love.

It just makes everything more pleasurable when you've got someone that emotionally is there to rely on.

Sensual is everything that refers to the delight of the senses. And that's what artists do, is stimulate the senses in any possible way.

The acquisition of an accurate and easy conversation, of some skill in music, and in pure and healthful diversions, are of great benefit in fitting one for social intercourse, in which one of the greatest sources of pleasure is found.

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.

On the unconscious level, touch seems to impart a subliminal sense of caring and connection.

Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.