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"I use the word nursing for want of a better."

#Want #Use #Nursing

"The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower."

--- Florence Nightingale

#Lazy #Laziness #Sacrifice

"Women should have the true nurse calling, the good of the sick first the second only the consideration of what is their 'place' to do - and that women who want for a housemaid to do this or the charwomen to do that, when the patient is suffering, have not the making of a nurse in them."

--- Florence Nightingale

#Want #Firsts #Should

"I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small..."

--- Florence Nightingale

#Loses #Opportunity #Practicals

"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."

--- Florence Nightingale

#Knows #Way #Color

"I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel."

--- Florence Nightingale

#World #Certain #Hero

"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."

--- Florence Nightingale

#Firsts #Objects #Lasts

"Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?"

--- Florence Nightingale

#Activity #Three #Moral

"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; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts."

--- Florence Nightingale

#Marble #Nursing #Sculptors

"Life is a hard fight, a struggle, a wrestling with the principle of evil, hand to hand, foot to foot. Every inch of the way is disputed. The night is given us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power. The day, to use the strength which has been given us, to go forth to work with it till the evening."

--- Florence Nightingale

#Hard #Hands #Has Beens

"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."

--- Florence Nightingale

#Hard #Ifs #Made

"People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying His prayer, and so on; but if anyone attempts the real imitation of Him, there are no bounds to the outcry with which the presumption of that person is condemned."

--- Florence Nightingale

#Ifs #People #Bounds

"Poetry and imagination begin life. A child will fall on its knees on the gravel walk at the sight of a pink hawthorn in full flower, when it is by itself, to praise God for it."

--- Florence Nightingale

#Praise #Children #Sight

"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."

--- Florence Nightingale

#Important #Believe #My Family

"A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place."

--- Florence Nightingale

#Humans #Doe #Human Beings

"If I could give you information of my life it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do in His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing. I have worked hard, very hard, that is all; and I have never refused God anything."

--- Florence Nightingale

#Hard #Ifs #Giving

"No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-'devoted and obedient.' This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman."

--- Florence Nightingale

#Giving #Should #Wells

"A woman cannot live in the light of intellect. Society forbids it. Those conventional frivolities, which are called her 'duties', forbid it. Her 'domestic duties', high-sounding words, which, for the most part, are but bad habits (which she has not the courage to enfranchise herself from, the strength to break through), forbid it."

--- Florence Nightingale

#Break #Light #Intellect

"Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization"

--- Florence Nightingale

#Stage #Civilization #Hospitals

"Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him."

--- Florence Nightingale

#Patient #Cures #Conditions

"Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful."

--- Florence Nightingale

#Hard #Successful #Jobs

"... people have founded vast schemes upon a very few words."

--- Florence Nightingale

#People #Schemes #Few Words

"You must go to Mahometanism, to Buddhism, to the East, to the Sufis Fakirs, to Pantheism, for the right growth of mysticism."

--- Florence Nightingale

#Mysticism #Growth #East

"That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics."

--- Florence Nightingale

#Doctrine #Devotion #Suffering

"Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?"

--- Florence Nightingale

#Done #Simple #Right Thing

"Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. For the greatest things grow by God's Law out of the smallest. But to live your life you must discipline it. You must not fritter it away in "fair purpose, erring act, inconstant will" but make your thoughts, your acts, all work to the same end and that end, not self but God. That is what we call character."

--- Florence Nightingale

#Self #Ends #Life Is

"It is very well to say "be prudent, be careful, try to know each other." But how are you to know each other?"

--- Florence Nightingale

#Knows #Wells #Trying

"May we hope that, when we are all dead and gone, leaders will arise who have been personally experienced in the hard, practical work, the difficulties, and the joys of organizing nursing reforms, and who will lead far beyond anything we have done!"

--- Florence Nightingale

#Hard #Done #Has Beens

"I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause."

--- Florence Nightingale

#Men #Causes #Fighting

"How very little can be done under the spirit of fear."

--- Florence Nightingale

#Done #Spirit #Littles

"Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery."

--- Florence Nightingale

#Objects #Color #Healing

"Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization, never intended ... to take in the whole sick population. May we hope that the day will come ... when every poor sick person will have the opportunity of a share in a district sick-nurse at home."

--- Florence Nightingale

#Stage #Sick #May

"Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore."

--- Florence Nightingale

#Way #World #Ten

"For the sick it is important to have the best."

--- Florence Nightingale

#Important #Science #Sick

"Remember my name-- you'll be screaming it later."

--- Florence Nightingale

#Remember #Names

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