Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEA human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
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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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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. For years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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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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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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The time is come when women must do something more than the “domestic hearth,” which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.
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Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
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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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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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Nature alone cures. What nursing has to do is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
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