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More Quotes by Florence Nightingale
Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
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.
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.
Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
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.
I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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.
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.
