Quotes by Patch Adams

“If you actually are a doctor and admitted it, youd say, I dont cure a huge percentage, I dont have a 50 percent cure rate ... (but) I can have a 100 percent compassion rate,”

“They want to have a fabulous listener, they want sweet tenderness and no sense that you are in a hurry,”

“We love our patients and our patients love us. You dont sue someone you love.”

“Excellence in health means devoting your life to ending poverty.”

“My work is to end violence, and to bring harmony to people,”

“Its humiliating that a person who kicks a ball makes more money than a school teacher.”

“They had every reason to be sad and angry, yet people were instantly friendly, engaging and giving.”

“they owed something; we wanted them to feel they belonged to something.”

“[Nonviolent people] really have so few tools to face a capitalist system, ... All we really have are ourselves and our ideas. Our ideas have not done the job.”

“You have a brilliant mind, and like many brilliant people you dont necessarily think the rules apply,”

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!

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.

Excellence in health means devoting your life to ending poverty.

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

Humor is an antidote to all ills.

Unlike a lot of people, I dont feel powerless. I know I can do something. But anyone can do something, its not about being special. Its about deciding to do it - to dive into work for peace and justice and care for everybody on the planet.

The medium of response in America is fame; thats how a person that bounces a ball can make millions of dollars, and a school teacher with no fame makes $35,000.

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 Ive never emerged.

Youve 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. Youll manage your time to achieve your goals because you clearly know what youre trying to achieve in your life.

If we dont change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think well be extinct by mid-century. I dont say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist.