Patch Adams Quotes

All should take care of the sick

I think health care is more about love than about most other things. If there isn't at the core of this two human beings who have agreed to be in a relationship where one is trying to help relieve the suffering of another, which is love, you can't get to the right answer here.

I could only try to comfort the women that I came face-to-face with. I was really moved by how much they wanted to talk, how much they needed to be comforted, and how happy they were that we were there.

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

Find a doctor who cares about you, because a big part of health care is caring.

In one way, I want to heal people.

We forget some of the oldest medicines we have are love and compassion, and they can be deployed by everyone.

How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.

I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.

Maybe what I'm trying to do is heal others. I think what we're trying to do in theater is heal someone.

You can relate to somebody's pain and you have compassion, which can lead to intimacy.

When you're sick, nobody takes care of you like your mom.

I think more tolerance, more people having more access to a chance to be literate, and a chance to stay healthy makes for a more peaceful planet.

In high school, I had two friends that were suffering from cancer. I would go and sing for them while they were in hospital, and I sang at their services after they passed.

I think when you suffer a tremendous loss, everybody needs love and support in tangible ways. And that's what people have done for us.

When a friend is sick, I see the situation for what it is, not what it isn't, and I offer to help as much as she wants, not as much as I want.

Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.

We do not need answers or formulas to minister in crisis.

In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.

Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

I think I'd like to be able to heal people's pain, whether it is hunger, loneliness or whatever.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

You just feel comfortable with him, and he certainly makes sure that you're comfortable. He makes sure that you feel good and that you're happy with what you're doing.