Awakening Quote by Elizabeth Blackwell

“The goal of medicine is peculiarly, the goal of making itself unneccessary: of influencing life so that what is medicine today becomes mere commonsense…

— Adolf Meyer

“It is a good initiative for the dreams that would change one society to be nursed in another environment, before being transplanted to strive…

— Israelmore Ayivor

“I began to come into close contact with poverty, with hunger, with disease, with the inability to cure a child because of a lack…

— Ernesto Che Guevara

Florence Nightingale was an amazing figure. She created the American Red Cross. She saw the suffering from bad health conditions on the battlefield and…

— Sharon Lawrence

“… but she herself embodies their greatest, most therapeutic gift: the message that we are here to be here , to go through it…

— James Hollis

“Generosity always intends to enhance the true wellbeing of those to whom it gives.”

— JA Perez

…to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.

— Louisa May Alcott

We are all of us obliged, if we are to make reality endurable, to nurse a few little follies in ourselves.

— Marcel Proust

“Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.”

— Dorothy Parker

“Be guided only by the healer of the sick, the raiser of the dead, the friend of all who were afflicted and forlorn, the…

— Charles Dickens

“She had the look of someone who'd declared herself, and seeing it, my indignation collapsed and her mutinous bath turned into something else entirely.…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“She was what an aristocrat should be, porcelain and silk, unreachable, gracious, untainted by the dust of all this common death.”

— Tanith Lee