I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEShe said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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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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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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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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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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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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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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Never give nor take an excuse.
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By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.
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The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
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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.
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