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 NIGHTINGALENo woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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She 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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We 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.
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That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.
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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.
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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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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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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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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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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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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.
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