There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALELittle as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
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The ‘kingdom of heaven is within,’ indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
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I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.
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For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.
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The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health, or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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Nature alone cures. What nursing has to do is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
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Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God.
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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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Do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
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If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
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A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
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