Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEAt present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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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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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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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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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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Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.
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Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect.
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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 can stand out the war with any man.
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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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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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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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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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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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