Patch Adams Quotes

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!

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!

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

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!

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

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

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!

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.

Every human being has an impact on another.

We need to start treating the patient as well as the disease.

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

Humor is an antidote to all ills.

For me, spiritual means love in action. So if you are working for love, then you are a spiritual person.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

The value of friendship and just deep human contact grows out of giving.

You've got to know what you want. This is central to acting on your intentions. When you know what you want, you realize that all there is left then is time management. You'll manage your time to achieve your goals because you clearly know what you're trying to achieve in your life.

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

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.