The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEVolumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I wish a little more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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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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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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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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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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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 very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter’s or sculptor’s work.
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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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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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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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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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