She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.

The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.

For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.

I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.

I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.

I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.

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.