At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThe craving for ‘the return of the day’, which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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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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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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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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We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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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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I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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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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Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
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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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