Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEI think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Is it not merely a hard word for ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is within’? Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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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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The 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.
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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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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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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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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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The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
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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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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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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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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.
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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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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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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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A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
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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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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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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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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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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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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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