Patch Adams Quotes - Page 2

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• 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.

  Patch Adams

  Goal, Trying, Acting

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Spread joy. Chase your wildest dreams.

  Patch Adams

  Happiness, Success, Graduation

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• 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.

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  Men, Years, Humanity

  Source: www.natureandhealth.com.au

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• Please live a healthy life - medicine is an imperfect science.

  Patch Adams

  Life, Science, Medicine

  Patch Adams (1998). “Gesundheit!: Bringing Good Health to You, the Medical System, and Society through Physician Service, Complementary Therapies, Humor, and Joy”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• Excellence in health means devoting your life to ending poverty.

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  Mean, Excellence, Poverty

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• Please give your life to peace, justice and care.

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  Giving, Justice, Care

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• 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.

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  Faith, Impact, People

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• I am extremely intentional in making the environment around me playful and loving. I have great skill in that area.

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  Skills, Environment, Areas

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• 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.

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  Gratitude, Bad Day, Sea

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

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  Art, Health, Healing

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• 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.

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  Helping Others, People, Giving

  Source: www.natureandhealth.com.au

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• I am funny, but I'm not about funny...
  I'm about peace & justice.

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  Justice, Peace Justice

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• 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'.

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  Compassion, Doctors, Cures

  Real Patch Adams says jokes aid practical medicine, www.cnn.com. January 11, 1999.

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• My first reaction was that the adult world was fake and liars and basically worked for money and power. I didn't want to live in that world, so I spent a year, aged 17 to 18, trying to kill myself. I didn't want to live in a world of violence and injustice.

  Patch Adams

  Liars, Years, Fake

  Source: www.natureandhealth.com.au

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• 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!

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  People, Justice, Example

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• 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.

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  Spiritual, Political, Rage

  Source: www.natureandhealth.com.au

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• I look at history, there's not a government on the planet I respect. No country in history was ever safe to its women; internet sex is $100 billion a year industry, and 15-20 million men a day have sex with a child in sexual slavery.

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  Country, Sex, Children

  Source: www.natureandhealth.com.au

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• What I really want is a world where no one alive can remember what the word 'war' means. That's my goal.

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  War, Mean, Goal

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

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  Christian, Buddhist, Real

  Source: www.natureandhealth.com.au

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• 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."

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  Sleep, Departed, Debt

  "Fictional character: Hunter Patch Adams". "Patch Adams", www.imdb.com. 1998.

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

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  Nature, Stress, Moving

  Patch Adams, M.D. (1998). “Gesundheit!: Bringing Good Health to You, the Medical System, and Society through Physician Service, Complementary Therapies, Humor, and Joy”, p.93, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• Givers get trust quicker than other people. People trust generous people.

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  People, Giver, Generous People

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• 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.

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  Beautiful, Girl, Looks

  "Patch Adams". www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• I've never made a penny being a doctor, so that makes it not a job. My sense of a doctor is that one is a presence caring for health. So I'm never not a doctor. People call me from all over the world who are hurting, and I care for them. Chatting is what more people want than anything.

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  Hurt, Jobs, Caring

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Compassion, Government

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