Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALENature alone cures. What nursing has to do is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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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.
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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 ‘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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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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I can stand out the war with any man.
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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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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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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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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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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite necessary nevertheless to lay down such a principle.
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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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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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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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