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Patch Adams
American
Author
Born:
May 28
,
1945
Care
Health
Love
Me
People
World
Related authors:
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Frederick Douglass
Helen Keller
Henry David Thoreau
Joyce Meyer
Mark Twain
Og Mandino
Zig Ziglar
The role of a clown and a physician are the same - it's to elevate the possible and to relieve suffering.
Patch Adams
Suffering
Physician
Clown
Possible
Relieve
Role
Same
Elevate
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
Life
Time
You
Management
Goals
Achieve
Clearly
Know
Because
Got
Time Management
Left
Trying
Manage
Intentions
Want
Central
Realize
Then
Acting
Your
If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we'll be extinct by mid-century. I don't say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist.
Patch Adams
Change
World
Money
Compassion
Power
Pessimist
Think
Society
Say
Worships
Generosity
Extinct
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
Life
Day
Gratitude
Age
Mind
Made
Bad Day
My Life
Bad
Emerged
Never
Another
Up
Endless
Which
Sea
Dove
Humor is an antidote to all ills.
Patch Adams
Humor
Antidote
Ills
Clowning is a trick to get love close. I can hug 99 percent of people in the first second of contact if I'm in my clown character. The clown assumes your humanity. It assumes that, whatever trauma you've had, you can still love yourself.
Patch Adams
Love
Character
You
Love Yourself
Yourself
Humanity
People
First
Hug
Whatever
Clown
Assumes
Trick
Percent
Had
Contact
Still
Close
Get
Clowning
Your
Trauma
Second
I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.
Patch Adams
Love
Hope
Great
Suffering
Creativity
Passion
Medicine
Ease
Given
Never
Deathbed
Psychiatric
Fun
Things
Wearing underwear on the outside of your clothes can turn a tedious trip to the store for a forgotten carton of milk into an amusement park romp.
Patch Adams
Clothes
Wearing
Trip
Park
Outside
Underwear
Forgotten
Store
Turn
Your
Milk
Amusement
Tedious
Everyone who goes to a job he doesn't like is a lot weirder than I am.
Patch Adams
Job
Everyone
He
Weirder
Like
Am
Lot
Than
Goes
Who
I've taken clowns into the war in Bosnia, the refugee camps of Kosovo, and none of those are any more important than clowning in a subway or an elevator or just walking down the street.
Patch Adams
War
Important
Down
Those
Bosnia
More
Taken
None
Kosovo
Camps
Walking
Than
Any
Refugee
Just
Clowning
Clowns
Just Walking
Subway
Street
Elevator
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