Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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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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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The craving for ‘the return of the day’, which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
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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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I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter’s or sculptor’s work.
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Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God.
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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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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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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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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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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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I can stand out the war with any man.
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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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