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Any can do it — BE RADIANT! Make the decision. I want to be an agent of change to a loving world — so I will be radiant.

— Patch Adams

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The medical professionals are a lot more comfortable calling it "depression" than calling it "loneliness."

I have often found that mental patients who are given love, creativity, and community find the peace that they are reaching out for.

House Calls: How we can all heal the world one visit at a time (1998)

Imagination is an infinite resource that cannot be diminished by overuse or underuse.

House Calls: How we can all heal the world one visit at a time (1998)

I dove into the ocean of gratitude and never found the shore.

Take a close look at the part that "love" plays in your life. Make an inventory of love: people, things, ideas, experiences. Try to live your gratitude.

House Calls: How we can all heal the world one visit at a time (1998)

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Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

To say that the future will be different from the present is, to scientists, hopelessly self-evident.

Robert F. Kennedy

He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

Samuel Johnson The Idler (1758)

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. (Weil die Dinge sind, wie sie sind, werden die Dinge nicht so bleiben wie sie sind.)

Bertolt Brecht Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations (1976)

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