That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEI never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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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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I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
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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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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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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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I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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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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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.
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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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