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 NIGHTINGALEThe next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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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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By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.
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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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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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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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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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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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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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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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