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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALELittle 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.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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The ‘kingdom of heaven is within,’ indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
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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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Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
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No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-‘devoted and obedient.’ This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.
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Volumes 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.
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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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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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At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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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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