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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEI think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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.
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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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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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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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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.
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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.
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A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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