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?
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
The craving for ‘the return of the day’, which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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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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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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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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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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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 time is come when women must do something more than the “domestic hearth,” which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.
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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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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
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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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Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
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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 martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
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