If you focus on the problem, you can’t see the solution. Never focus on the problem. Patch Adams More Quotes by Patch Adams More Quotes From Patch Adams 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'. Patch Adams cures doctors compassion Humor is an antidote to all ills. Patch Adams antidote I am funny, but I'm not about funny... Patch Adams peace-justice justice 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. Patch Adams humanity men years 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 fake liars years Givers get trust quicker than other people. People trust generous people. Patch Adams generous-people giver people Nothing I study makes me think we will survive this century. And yet why am I so happy? Because it's not too late. Just get off your ass and work for revolution. Patch Adams revolution too-late thinking Excellence in health means devoting your life to ending poverty. Patch Adams poverty excellence mean 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 girl beautiful looks 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." Patch Adams departed debt sleep Spread joy. Chase your wildest dreams. Patch Adams success graduation happiness Nature tops the list of potent tranquilizers and stress reducers. The mere sound of moving water has been shown to lower blood pressure. Patch Adams stress nature moving People crave laughter as if it were an essential amino acid. Patch Adams laughter essentials people 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. Patch Adams impact faith people 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 healthy encouragement writing I like giving. Doing something for somebody else feels good. Patch Adams feel-good feels giving One cannot separate the health of the individual from the health of the community, from the health of the world. Patch Adams individual community world 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?" Patch Adams lasts health healing I love you without knowing how, why, or even from where Patch Adams teenage-love knowing love-you 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! Patch Adams cancer laughter fighting
