Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEFor 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.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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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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Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God – to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.
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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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