Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
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.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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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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Do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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Never give nor take an excuse.
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The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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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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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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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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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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