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 NIGHTINGALEIt 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.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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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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I can stand out the war with any man.
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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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Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?
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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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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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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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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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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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If 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.
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Never give nor take an excuse.
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