Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale, OM, RRCwas a celebrated English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth12 May 1820
CityFlorence, Italy
break-through light habit
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.
affection
Woman has nothing but her affections,--and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
buddhism growth east
You must go to Mahometanism, to Buddhism, to the East, to the Sufis Fakirs, to Pantheism, for the right growth of mysticism.
nursing nurse patient
Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
science average data
Averages ... seduce us away from minute observation.
motivational giving excuse
Never give nor take an excuse.
nursing color said
She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
diversity heaven kingdoms
For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Is it not merely a hard word for 'The Kingdom of Heaven is within'? Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
nursing tea get-better
The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.
nursing light sick
The craving for 'the return of the day', which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
suffering doctrine god-love
That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.
next female christ
The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
expression law ideas
Newton's law is nothing but the statistics of gravitation, it has no power whatever. Let us get rid of the idea of power from law altogether. Call law tabulation of facts, expression of facts, or what you will; anything rather than suppose that it either explains or compels.
nouns disease adjectives
diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.