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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEVolumes 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.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
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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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Do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.
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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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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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Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.
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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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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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