Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
For me, spiritual means love in action. So if you are working for love, then you are a spiritual person.
Patch Adams
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Patch Adams
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: May 28
Diplomat
Physician
Washington
District of Columbia
Spiritual
Means
Action
Persons
Person
Mean
Love
Working
More quotes by Patch Adams
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.
Patch Adams
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.
Patch Adams
We can never get a re-creation of community and heal our society without giving our citizens a sense of belonging.
Patch Adams
The role of a clown and a physician are the same - it's to elevate the possible and to relieve suffering.
Patch Adams
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.
Patch Adams
The most radical act anyone can commit is to be happy.
Patch Adams
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.
Patch Adams
Jump for joy as we accomplish the dreams we adore.
Patch Adams
Every human being has an impact on another.
Patch Adams
I am extremely intentional in making the environment around me playful and loving. I have great skill in that area.
Patch Adams
Excellence in health means devoting your life to ending poverty.
Patch Adams
Because we are interested in promoting wellness, we will integrate medicine with performing arts, arts and crafts, agriculture, recreation, nature, and social service.
Patch Adams
Please give your life to peace, justice and care.
Patch Adams
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.
Patch Adams
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.
Patch Adams
People like givers, people want to help givers. I get stuff all the time.
Patch Adams
People crave laughter as if it were an essential amino acid.
Patch Adams
I am a Doctor, but above all else I consider myself an activist for peace, justice and care for all people.
Patch Adams
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.
Patch Adams
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.
Patch Adams