Patch Adams Quotes
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.
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.
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!
The reason adults should look as though they are having fun, is to give kids a reason to want to grow up.
We can never get a re-creation of community and heal our society without giving our citizens a sense of belonging.
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.
Nature tops the list of potent tranquilizers and stress reducers. The mere sound of moving water has been shown to lower blood pressure.
For me, spiritual means love in action. So if you are working for love, then you are a spiritual person.
I am extremely intentional in making the environment around me playful and loving. I have great skill in that area.
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.
Every problem in history is due to men, so I'm basically asking for humanity to nest itself in a feminine culture, probably for the next 1,000 years.
I'd say that I think the most revolutionary act that you can commit in our society today is to be happy.
I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.
When I hear real faithful people - whether it's a real Christian, or a real Buddhist, or a real Muslim - I hear them use the language I use for a friend. So my metaphor for God is friend.
Kindness Day? Kindness Day? Do you suppose if we were kind and enthusiastic for centuries uninterruptedly, that someone would create 'Nasty, Indifferent Day'?
The role of a clown and a physician are the same - it's to elevate the possible and to relieve suffering.
Because we are interested in promoting wellness, we will integrate medicine with performing arts, arts and crafts, agriculture, recreation, nature, and social service.
For most of human history, we lived communally in groups, and it was part of the security and nature of groups to help each other and groom each other.
I am a Doctor, but above all else I consider myself an activist for peace, justice and care for all people.
What I really want is a world where no one alive can remember what the word 'war' means. That's my goal.
We have to end the capitalist system. We have to make love our value. You are rich when you love and you are rich when you are giving away your time and what you have to help other people.
One cannot separate the health of the individual from the health of the community, from the health of the world.
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'.
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!
I'm a raging leftist political activist. I've never had a spiritual thought in my life related to God. I'm clear that that's a human invention.
No one ever writes me and says, 'We have a happy hospital'. Nowhere is doing it in a healthy way. That's encouragement for me.
