The ‘kingdom of heaven is within,’ indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALENever give nor take an excuse.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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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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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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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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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
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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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Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.
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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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The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
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The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
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To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
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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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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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