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 NIGHTINGALEThe 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 NIGHTINGALENever underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEOur first journey is to find that special place for us.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEHeaven is neither a place nor a time.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEJesus 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 NIGHTINGALELive life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEPeople have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEVolumes 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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEI think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEI never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThere is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEWe set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThe great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThe craving for ‘the return of the day’, which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEDo not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEShe said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
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