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.
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 most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
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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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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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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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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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We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.
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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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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
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Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect.
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I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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I can stand out the war with any man.
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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 stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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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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There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.
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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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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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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 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 night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
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Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
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I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
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Never give nor take an excuse.
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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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