Volumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I wish a little more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThe first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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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 very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
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The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed.
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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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Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
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For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Is it not merely a hard word for ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is within’? Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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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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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.
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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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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 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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