I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEMysticism: 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.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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.
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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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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.
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It is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?
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For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.
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The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.
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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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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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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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When shall we see a life full of steady enthusiasm, walking straight to its aim, flying home, as that bird is now, against the wind – with the calmness and the confidence of one who knows the laws of God and can apply them?
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The ‘kingdom of heaven is within,’ indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
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