Patch Adams Quotes

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

I often say that the opposite of depression is not happiness but vitality.

Why do people spend their time being sad when they could be happy?

To me, sadness and humor aren't disrelated and humor is the best tool I've had against the sadness in my life.

I used to be so intensely preoccupied by unhappiness... now there are times where you might get down, but you can move on much faster now.

It takes a lot of energy to be negative. You have to work at it. But smiling is painless. I'd rather spend my energy smiling.

I'm happy, and I think being happy keeps you looking young.

I see taking care of my emotional and mental health in the same way that I see taking care of a garment: After it's been through wear and tear, it needs attention.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.

I think I'm generally an upbeat person. Obviously I can get moody, but my whole philosophy is to try and have a good time.

Flourishing is everyone's birthright. I'm trying to break this hold that being smiley and cheery has on what people think the good life is.

My ideology was, if I just make very happy music, very happy music, then people will forget about whatever their problems are. I will forget about my problems.

Smile, smile, smile at your mind as often as possible. Your smiling will considerably reduce your mind's tearing tension.

I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can be divorced and flourish. When we believed that happiness was only smiling and good mood, that wasn't very good for people like me, people in the lower half of positive affectivity.

Being happy, being healthy, is the most important thing.

We pay a lot of attention to our diet, but never to our mental health.

I'm naturally a very happy person, but I've had times with depression and have got through it with therapy.

You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.

Just breathing and smiling can make us very happy, because when we breathe consciously we recover ourselves completely and encounter life in the present moment.

I live in a constant endeavor to fence against the infirmities of ill health, and other evils of life, by mirth; being firmly persuaded that every time a man smiles, but much more when he laughs, it adds some thing to his fragment of life.

I think as time goes on, I'm trying to get less fatalistic, because that's just one of those unhealthy, kind of dangerous head spaces to get in, of not being able to tolerate sustained positive energy.

The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe.

Mental health and mental balance is critical to leading a healthy life.

I found that dance was key to keeping depression out of my life.