Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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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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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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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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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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I can stand out the war with any man.
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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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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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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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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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For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.
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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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