By Laura Zigman

'Compliment' is just another way of saying 'word hug'

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According to Deepak Chopra, one of the easiest ways to make yourself happy is to make someone else happy. And one of the easiest ways to make someone else happy is to pay them a compliment.

Or, give them a warm fuzzy word-hug.

Saying something nice to someone is like wrapping them — and yourself — in a big snuggly verbal love-hug.

However you hyphenate it, paying someone a sincere compliment is the quickest way on earth to roll someone up in a fuzzy rug of word-snuggles.

Totally on board with the concept of word-hugging but need a little inspiration? Crib from Five Compliments Guaranteed to Make Someone’s Day for ideas.

It’s a cold world out there. Warm it up by making the people you love-snug-as-bugs-in word-hugs.

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