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Patch Adams Inspirational Quotes (40)

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I like giving. Doing something for somebody else feels good.
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The role of a clown and a physician are the same - it's to elevate the possible and to relieve suffering.
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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.
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Kindness Day? Kindness Day? Do you suppose if we were kind and enthusiastic for centuries uninterruptedly, that someone would create 'Nasty, Indifferent Day'?
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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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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?
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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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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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Excellence in health means devoting your life to ending poverty.
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For me, spiritual means love in action. So if you are working for love, then you are a spiritual person.
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All the messages our kids are getting is money-taking, not giving.
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We can never get a re-creation of community and heal our society without giving our citizens a sense of belonging.
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The reason adults should look as though they are having fun, is to give kids a reason to want to grow up.
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I love you without knowing how, why, or even from where
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Givers get trust quicker than other people. People trust generous people.
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People crave laughter as if it were an essential amino acid.
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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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People like givers, people want to help givers. I get stuff all the time.
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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.
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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.
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I am a Doctor, but above all else I consider myself an activist for peace, justice and care for all people.
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The value of friendship and just deep human contact grows out of giving.
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Please give your life to peace, justice and care.
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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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