For me, spiritual means love in action. So if you are working for love, then you are a spiritual person.
Excellence in health means devoting your life to ending poverty.
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.
When a dream takes hold of you, what can you do? You can run with it, let it run your life, or let it go and think for the rest of your life about what might have been.
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.
Spread joy. Chase your wildest dreams.
Nature tops the list of potent tranquilizers and stress reducers. The mere sound of moving water has been shown to lower blood pressure.
We can never get a re-creation of community and heal our society without giving our citizens a sense of belonging.
Givers get trust quicker than other people. People trust generous people.
If you focus on the problem, you can’t see the solution. Never focus on the problem.
Humor is an antidote to all ills.
One cannot separate the health of the individual from the health of the community, from the health of the world.
I’ve never made a penny being a doctor, so that makes it not a job. My sense of a doctor is that one is a presence caring for health. So I’m never not a doctor. People call me from all over the world who are hurting, and I care for them. Chatting is what more people want than anything.
I am a Doctor, but above all else I consider myself an activist for peace, justice and care for all people.
What I really want is a world where no one alive can remember what the word ‘war’ means. That’s my goal.
Nothing I study makes me think we will survive this century. And yet why am I so happy? Because it’s not too late. Just get off your ass and work for revolution.
People crave laughter as if it were an essential amino acid.
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.
I love you without knowing how, why, or even from where.
It’s such a paradox for them to say, “Oh, my God, I’ve thrown away my life,” and continue to do that for the last month of their life. I shake them, physically shake them, and say, “What about now? What about now?”