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More Quotes by Florence Nightingale
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
People say the effect is only on the mind. It is no such thing. The effect is on the body, too. 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. Variety of form and brilliancy of color in the objects presented to patients, are actual means of recovery.
Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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.
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.
Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
Remember my name-- you'll be screaming it later.
