There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThe very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health, or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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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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Religious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a “form” of words, made beforehand- or think of God but with a prearranged idea.
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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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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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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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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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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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Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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