A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALENever underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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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.
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Marriage is the only chance (and it is but a chance) offered to women for escape from this death and how eagerly and how ignorantly it is embraced.
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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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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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It is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?
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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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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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The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.
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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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The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
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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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I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
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Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?
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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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