She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEIf 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.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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When shall we see a life full of steady enthusiasm, walking straight to its aim, flying home, as that bird is now, against the wind – with the calmness and the confidence of one who knows the laws of God and can apply them?
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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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 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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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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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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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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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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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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Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
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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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I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
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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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