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More Quotes by Florence Nightingale
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.
Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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.
A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
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.
