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Hunter Doherty "Patch" Adams (born May 28, 1945) is 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.

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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.

Art, Healing, Health, Place, Promoting, Social

We have to end the capitalist system. We have to make love our value. You are rich when you love and you are rich when you are giving away your time and what you have to help other people.

Helping Others, People, Giving, Away, Help, System

I like giving. Doing something for somebody else feels good.

Feel Good, Feels, Giving, Good, Like

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.

Beautiful, Bedroom, Girl, Looks, Untouched

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.

Acting, Goal, Goals, Left, Life, Trying

Jump for joy as we accomplish the dreams we adore.

Accomplish, Adore, Dream, Joy, Jump

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.

Buddhist, Christian, Metaphor, Muslim, Real

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!

Anew, Chooses, Each Day, Laziness, Sees, World

We can never get a re-creation of community and heal our society without giving our citizens a sense of belonging.

Belonging, Community, Giving, Heal, Inspiring

Every human being has an impact on another.

Human, Human Beings, Humans, Impact

People like givers, people want to help givers. I get stuff all the time.

Help, People, Stuff, Time, Want

Unlike a lot of people, I don't feel powerless. I know I can do something. But anyone can do something, it's not about being special. It's about deciding to do it - to dive into work for peace and justice and care for everybody on the planet.

Care, Justice, People, Powerless, Special

I love you without knowing how, why, or even from where

Love You, Teenage Love, Knowing, Love

For me, spiritual means love in action. So if you are working for love, then you are a spiritual person.

Action, Love, Mean, Spiritual, Working

I'm a raging leftist political activist. I've never had a spiritual thought in my life related to God. I'm clear that that's a human invention.

Human, Political, Rage, Related, Spiritual

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!

People, Justice, Example, Human, Live, Famous

The purpose of a doctor or any human in general should not be to simply delay the death of the patient, but to increase the person's quality of life.

Delay, Doctor, Doctors, Purpose, Quality, Simply

I'd say that I think the most revolutionary act that you can commit in our society today is to be happy.

Happiness, Our Society, Revolutionary, Say, Think, Thinking

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.

Age, Bad Day, Endless, Gratitude, Sea

Please give your life to peace, justice and care.

Care, Giving, Justice, Please

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