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More Quotes by Florence Nightingale
Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.
The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
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!
It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite necessary nevertheless to lay down such a principle.
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.
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.
Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
