Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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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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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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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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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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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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Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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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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For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.
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Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
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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.
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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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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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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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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.
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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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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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