Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEFor 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.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?
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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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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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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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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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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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The time is come when women must do something more than the “domestic hearth,” which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.
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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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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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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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