Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter’s or sculptor’s work.
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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To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
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Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect.
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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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Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite necessary nevertheless to lay down such a principle.
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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.
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I can stand out the war with any man.
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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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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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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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
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