The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEWhen 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?
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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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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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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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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Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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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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Volumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I wish a little more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.
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Religious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a “form” of words, made beforehand- or think of God but with a prearranged idea.
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Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.
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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 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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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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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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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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