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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.

Florence Nightingale

A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Average Equality Habit Leadership
Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Remember Scream Yourself
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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Cold Food Medicine Mistake Patient Sick
The ‘kingdom of heaven is within,’ indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Circumstance Creation Heaven Ourselves
The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Condition Culture Mindset Sick Specific Stability Weakness
Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Condition God Himself Minister Raise Slave Woman
I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Bed Excitement Live Man Myself Sleep Woman
Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Beautiful Effect Healing
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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Amount Bed Care Comfort Experience Observation relief Sick
That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Devotion God Love Mystic Religion Suffering Work
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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Convention Death Development Sacrifice World
At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Domestic Each Other Live Present Society
For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Experience Gain Nurse Progress Word
She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Color Effect Feeling Material Object Physical
Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Adjective Experience Substance
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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Darkness Direct Experience Hurt Light Qualify Sick

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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