Nature alone cures. What nursing has to do is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALENever underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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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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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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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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The craving for ‘the return of the day’, which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
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A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.
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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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If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
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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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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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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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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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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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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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I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. For years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.
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The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health, or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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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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The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
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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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