Peplau Nurse Quotes & Sayings

In TIME June 7, 2010
On the sustainability of the publishing industry, in the Chicago Tribune:
"I think that book publishing is about to slide into the sea. We live in a literate time, and our children are writing up a storm, often combining letters and numbers ... The future of publishing: 18 million authors in America, each with an average of 14 readers, eight of whom are blood relatives. Average annual earnings: $175." - 5/26/10 — Garrison Keillor

The Sufis say there are three ways to know fire - by hearing it described, by seeing it, or by being burned. — Huston Smith

On the grave among the pine trees, a boy knelt weeping, his chest, racked by sobs, heaving in the darkness, oppressed by an immense grief gentler than the moon and more unfathomable than the night. — Gustave Flaubert

I've always wanted to be able to say that I come from Los Angeles, California and feel quintessentially American - even if I said that in Spanish. — Cheech Marin

How rash to assert that man shapes his own destiny. All he can do is determine his inner responses. — Etty Hillesum

The pride of ancestry is a superstructure of the most imposing height, but resting on the most flimsy foundation. It is ridiculous enough to observe the hauteur with which the old nobility look down on the new. The reason of this puzzled me a little, until I began to reflect that most titles are respectable only because they are old; if new, they would be despised, because all those who now admire the grandeur of the stream would see nothing but the impurity of the source. — Charles Caleb Colton

If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

All those who dare to seek, will find what they are seeking for. — Lailah Gifty Akita

GIGI: ....he's a knight, and knights always help princesses in trouble. — Eve Langlais

I don't differentiate between personal and professional work. Everything I do is personal. — Bill Frakes

Smiling and breathing. These are simple things. Exercising and serving. These are simple things. Being grateful and gracious. These are simple things. Acting with humility. Acting with courage. These are simple things. Some people try to make this business of living too complicated, — Eric Greitens

It was all that stuff about taking your parents' car when you're 13, sneaking booze into rock shows and ditching school with your friends. I could relate to that as a former teenager, rather than as a present parent. — Donal Logue

Do not try to make circumstances fit your plans. Make plans that fit the circumstances. — George S. Patton

Nursing has made great progress from being an occupation to becoming a profession in the 20th. Century. As the 21st. Century approaches, further progress will be reported and recorded in Cyberspace - The Internet being one conduit for that. Linking nurses and their information and knowledge across borders - around the world - will surely advance the profession of nursing much more rapidly in the next century — Hildegard Peplau