There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThere are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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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 am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
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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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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
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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 can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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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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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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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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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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The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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