Mysticism: 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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEI am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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Never give nor take an excuse.
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The craving for ‘the return of the day’, which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
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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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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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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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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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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.
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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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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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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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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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I can stand out the war with any man.
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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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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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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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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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The time is come when women must do something more than the “domestic hearth,” which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.
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If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
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The 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.
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A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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