Patch Adams famous quotes

Waiting in line is a great opportunity to meet people, daydream, or play.
-- Patch Adams

#Positivity #Opportunity #Play

Unlike a lot of people, I don't feel powerless. I know I can do something. But anyone can do something, it's not about being special. It's about deciding to do it - to dive into work for peace and justice and care for everybody on the planet.
-- Patch Adams

#Justice #People #Special

The purpose of a doctor or any human in general should not be to simply delay the death of the patient, but to increase the person's quality of life.
-- Patch Adams

#Doctors #Quality #Purpose

The reason adults should look as though they are having fun, is to give kids a reason to want to grow up.
-- Patch Adams

#Growing Up #Fun #Kids

I'd say that I think the most revolutionary act that you can commit in our society today is to be happy.
-- Patch Adams

#Thinking #Today #Our Society

We need to start treating the patient as well as the disease,
-- Patch Adams

#Disease #Needs #Patient

When a dream takes hold of you, what can you do? You can run with it, let it run your life, or let it go and think for the rest of your life about what might have been.
-- Patch Adams

#Running #Dream #Thinking

Nature tops the list of potent tranquilizers and stress reducers. The mere sound of moving water has been shown to lower blood pressure.
-- Patch Adams

#Nature #Stress #Moving

The most radical act anyone can commit is to be happy.
-- Patch Adams

#Radical #Commit

At the age of 18, I made up my mind to never have another bad day in my life. I dove into a endless sea of gratitude from which I've never emerged.
-- Patch Adams

#Gratitude #Bad Day #Sea

We can never get a re-creation of community and heal our society without giving our citizens a sense of belonging.
-- Patch Adams

#Giving #Community #Society

Spread joy. Chase your wildest dreams.
-- Patch Adams

#Graduation #Dream #Joy

When I was a girl I would look out my bedroom window at the caterpillars; I envied them so much. No matter what they were before, no matter what happened to them, they could just hide away and turn into these beautiful creatures that could fly away completely untouched.
-- Patch Adams

#Beautiful #Girl #Looks

Excellence in health means devoting your life to ending poverty.
-- Patch Adams

#Mean #Excellence #Poverty

If you focus on the problem, you can’t see the solution.  Never focus on the problem.
-- Patch Adams

#Focus #Problem #Solutions

Death. To die. To expire. To pass on. To perish. To peg out. To push up daisies. To push up posies. To become extinct. Curtains, deceased, Demised, departed And defunct. Dead as a doornail. Dead as a herring. Dead as a mutton. Dead as nits. The last breath. Paying a debt to nature. The big sleep. God's way of saying, "Slow down."
-- Patch Adams

#Sleep #Departed #Debt

Every human being has an impact on another.
-- Patch Adams

#Impact #Humans

It's such a paradox for them to say, "Oh, my God, I've thrown away my life," and continue to do that for the last month of their life. I shake them, physically shake them, and say, "What about now? What about now?"
-- Patch Adams

#Health #Healing #Lasts

Remember laughing? Laughter enhances the blood flow to the body’s extremities and improves cardiovascular function. Laughter releases endorphins and other natural mood elevating and pain-killing chemicals, improves the transfer of oxygen and nutrients to internal organs. Laughter boosts the immune system and helps the body fight off disease, cancer cells as well as viral, bacterial and other infections. Being happy is the best cure of all diseases!
-- Patch Adams

#Pain #Laughter #Cancer

Humor is an antidote to all ills
-- Patch Adams

#Antidote

Jump for joy as we accomplish the dreams we adore.
-- Patch Adams

#Dream #Joy #Accomplish

I am funny, but I'm not about funny... I'm about peace & justice.
-- Patch Adams

#Justice

The role of a clown and a physician are the same - it's to elevate the possible and to relieve suffering.
-- Patch Adams

#Suffering #Physicians #Roles

Kindness Day? Kindness Day? Do you suppose if we were kind and enthusiastic for centuries uninterruptedly, that someone would create 'Nasty, Indifferent Day'?
-- Patch Adams

#Kindness #Nasty #Century

I am a Doctor, but above all else I consider myself an activist for peace, justice and care for all people.
-- Patch Adams

#Doctors #Justice #People

If you actually are a doctor and admitted it, you'd say, 'I don't cure a huge percentage, I don't have a 50 percent cure rate .. (but) I can have a 100 percent compassion rate,'.
-- Patch Adams

#Compassion #Doctors #Cures

People crave laughter as if it were an essential amino acid.
-- Patch Adams

#Laughter #People #Essentials

One cannot separate the health of the individual from the health of the community, from the health of the world.
-- Patch Adams

#Community #World #Individual

I want to live in a world where people become famous because of their work for peace and justice and care. I want the famous to be inspiring; their lives an example of what every human being has it in them to do - act from love!
-- Patch Adams

#Justice #People #World

Laughter boosts the immune system and helps the body fight off disease, cancer cells as well as viral, bacterial and other infections. Being happy is the best cure of all diseases!
-- Patch Adams

#Laughter #Cancer #Fighting

We need each other, deeper than anyone ever dares to admit even to themselves. I think it is a genetic imperative that we huddle together and hold on to each other. There is no question in my mind that there is nothing else in life, really, than friendship.
-- Patch Adams

#Thinking #Mind #Together

The Gesundheit Institute is a pie in the face of greed - by taking the most expensive thing in America, health care, and giving it away for free.
-- Patch Adams

#Pie #America #Giving

I love you without knowing how, why, or even from where
-- Patch Adams

#Love You #Knowing #Happy Love

Please give your life to peace, justice and care.
-- Patch Adams

#Justice #Giving #Care

I think my government are fascists. I feel that if we don't change from a society that worships money and power over to one that worships compassion and generosity, there is no hope for human survival this century.
-- Patch Adams

#Thinking #Compassion #Government

Faith can have a profound impact on health. It is a very personal experience of thought and surrender, which can comfort in every situation. Faith is free and available to all people at all times. It only requires that one fully embrace possibility, and the ultimate value is in the depth of the embrace.
-- Patch Adams

#Faith #Impact #Profound

Because we are interested in promoting wellness, we will integrate medicine with performing arts, arts and crafts, agriculture, recreation, nature, and social service.
-- Patch Adams

#Art #Cancer #Medicine

It [The Gesundheit Institute] also won't separate the healing arts. All of them work together - traditional medicine and surgery with acupuncture, homeopathy, etc. We want to make the hospital a place a person can't wait to come to, whether they are working there or being there as a patient. Because we are interested in promoting wellness, we will integrate medicine with performing arts, arts and crafts, agriculture, recreation, nature, and social service. Those are some skeletal parts.
-- Patch Adams

#Art #Health #Healing

See what no one else sees. See what everyone chooses not to see - out of fear, conformity, or laziness. See the whole world anew each day.
-- Patch Adams

#World #Laziness #Each Day

If you want to change the world, then be your own focus for a celebration of life. Really, fundamentally, at the very core of your being, be thankful you are alive, that you've got this opportunity, with these molecules, at this moment. Be thankful! Be a celebrant! Be thankful that you are alive and then look around to see who else is at the party!
-- Patch Adams

#Party #Opportunity #Being Thankful