Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThe ‘kingdom of heaven is within,’ indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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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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Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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Never give nor take an excuse.
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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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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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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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Do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
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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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I 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.
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Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
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Volumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I wish a little more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.
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It is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?
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