That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEI cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. For years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-‘devoted and obedient.’ This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.
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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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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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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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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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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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Marriage is the only chance (and it is but a chance) offered to women for escape from this death and how eagerly and how ignorantly it is embraced.
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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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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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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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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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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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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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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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The ‘kingdom of heaven is within,’ indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
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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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Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.
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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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