The ‘kingdom of heaven is within,’ indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThere is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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I 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.
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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 give nor take an excuse.
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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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We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.
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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 never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
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For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.
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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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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 next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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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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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
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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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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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