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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEShe said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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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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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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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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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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Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
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The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed.
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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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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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Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?
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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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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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Nature alone cures. What nursing has to do is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
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