Patch Adams Quotes

Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom. The way to find happiness is through the cure. Therefore, it is only through the cure that one finds freedom.

I've spent most of my life trying to think my way to happiness, and my failure to achieve that goal only proves, in my mind, that I am not a good enough thinker. It never occurred to me that the source of my unhappiness is not flawed thinking but thinking itself.

To me, it's like happiness is about happiness, but happiness is a fight.

I've had happy moments in my life, but I don't think that happiness-- being happy-- is a perpetual state that anyone can be in. Life isn't that way.

If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy.

Simple practices like conscious breathing and smiling are very important. They can change our civilization.

Happiness is so nonsynonymous with joy or pleasure that it is not infrequently sought and felt in grief and deprivation.

I don't have anything to prove anymore. What other people think of me is not my business.

Happiness is a choice. Choose to be happy.

And I believe happiness is the exact opposite of sadness, bitterness, and hatred: happiness should remain unexamined as long as possible.

I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.

Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.

Cheerfulness is a policy; happiness is a talent.

Happiness is a choice; not just a matter of genes or good luck.

We can be unhappy about many things, but jy can still be there... It is important to become aware that at every moment of our life we have an opportunity to choose joy... It is in the choice that our true freedom lies, and that freedom is, in the final analysis, the freedom to love.

It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.

Happiness is your choice. You can choose today.

I think our main priority is to make people happy and try to take them out of all that for a second.

Happiness depends on what happens; joy does not.

Happy people build their inner world; unhappy people blame their outer world.

I don’t believe in adhering to any rules I don’t support and I didn’t vote for. To hell with what people think. Just be who you are and you’ll be happy.

Joy, happiness ... we do not question. They are beyond question, maybe. A matter of being. But pain forces us to think, and to make connections ... to discover what has been happening to cause it. And, curiously enough, pain draws us to other human beings in a significant way, whereas joy or happiness to some extent, isolates.

Though it is folly to suppose that happiness is a matter of volition, and that we can make ourselves content and cheerful whenever we choose - a theory that many poor hypochondriacs are taunted with till they are nigh driven mad - yet, on the other hand, no sane mind is ever left without the power of self-discipline and self-control in a measure, which measure increases in proportion as it is exercised.

I think joy is just as instructive as pain, and I like it better. I never meant to suffer any more than I could help; my nature was meant for happiness, a daylight art and living.

If you're not happy, you can become happy. Happiness is a choice.