Patch Adams
Patch Adams
Hunter Doherty "Patch" Adamsis an American physician, comedian, social activist, clown, and author. He founded the Gesundheit! Institute in 1971. Each year he organizes a group of volunteers from around the world to travel to various countries where they dress as clowns in an effort to bring humor to orphans, patients, and other people...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth28 May 1945
CountryUnited States of America
people giver generous-people
Givers get trust quicker than other people. People trust generous people.
art health healing
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.
each-day world laziness
See what no one else sees. See what everyone chooses not to see - out of fear, conformity, or laziness. See the whole world anew each day.
community world individual
One cannot separate the health of the individual from the health of the community, from the health of the world.
justice people world
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!
antidote
Humor is an antidote to all ills
nature stress moving
Nature tops the list of potent tranquilizers and stress reducers. The mere sound of moving water has been shown to lower blood pressure.
giving community society
We can never get a re-creation of community and heal our society without giving our citizens a sense of belonging.
graduation dream joy
Spread joy. Chase your wildest dreams.
thinking too-late revolution
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.
beautiful girl looks
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.
dream running thinking
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.
focus problem solutions
If you focus on the problem, you can’t see the solution. Never focus on the problem.
christian buddhist real
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.