There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEWhen shall we see a life full of steady enthusiasm, walking straight to its aim, flying home, as that bird is now, against the wind – with the calmness and the confidence of one who knows the laws of God and can apply them?
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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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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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.
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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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I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
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The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.
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Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.
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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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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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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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