The ‘kingdom of heaven is within,’ indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThe specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. For years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.
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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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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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Do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
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No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-‘devoted and obedient.’ This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.
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That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.
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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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Religious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a “form” of words, made beforehand- or think of God but with a prearranged idea.
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
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When 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?
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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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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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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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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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I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
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Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter’s or sculptor’s work.
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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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It is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?
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