No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALENever underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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The craving for ‘the return of the day’, which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
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Volumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I wish a little more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.
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A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
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It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.
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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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Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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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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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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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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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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Marriage is the only chance (and it is but a chance) offered to women for escape from this death and how eagerly and how ignorantly it is embraced.
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.
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A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of her own family, she thinks it must be something so very wrong, that it is ten to one, if she have the opportunity of saying it, that she will not.
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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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I can stand out the war with any man.
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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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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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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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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God – to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.
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