Danielle Steel Quotes

Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that's why they're here. You'll have that gift forever.

Some things in life are worth waiting for.

If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.

Lust is temporary, romance can be nice, but love is the most important thing of all. Because without love, lust and romance will always be short-lived.

I am endlessly busy, bringing up five young kids, and trying to keep up with the three older ones. I still spend most of my life driving car pools.

A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.

Sometimes, if you aren't sure about something, you just have to jump off the bridge and grow your wings on the way down.

We are always better than before when those we love inflict wounds upon us.

Sing Me no songs tell me no tales cry me no tears, but remember me kindly.

Remember me? I'm back to my old self again. No responsibilities, no attachments, no encumbrances. I don't want to own anything, love anyone, or get too attached to people, places or things. It's a rule that seems to work well for me.

I did it at night because I loved it. I never did it to make money, as a job. I just did it because I had to.

Nothing is forever, but there's a continuing stream of people who go through our lives and continue with us... Nothing just stops and stays... But it flows on... Like a river.

Things work out the way they're meant to

I don't need a man to be happy. I had a great one , that was good enough. I don't expect to find another one like him, and why settle for anything less? I'm going ot be perfectly content alone.--Marya

If you let life pass you by now, it won't ever come back. You don't get another chance

You could never predict what would happen. There was an element of destiny in everything that one could never account for.

I'm not an aging gracefully type. But I do believe in aging with grace.

That is what touches me most. When somebody says: you really made a difference.

No man can take your freedom from you. They can limit your mobility, but that's about all they can do

Don't worry about it. The right thing will come at the right time.

Don't make decisions out of fear. They never get yo anywhere you want to go.

It's hard to make changes. Things get so comfortable and you don't want to move. Maybe it would do you good to be a little uncomfortable for a while, and do something different.

I believe in love at first sight for houses - but not for people.

Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through.

Life, a good life, a great life is about "Why not?" May we never forget it.

Not everyone is meant to stay forever.

This is fusion, when two people become one. They are so close and so well suited to each other that they blend together. They merge and can't live without each other after that.

I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.

Sometimes we have to face the things that hurt us most. Maybe you won’t heal till you do. You haven’t yet.” They both knew that was true. “You can’t move ahead until you bury the past.

.. that terrible feeling that you're not good enough to be loved by the people you love most, and eventually by anyone else.

Victoria heard across the wedding reception dance floor "You're loveable"!

Like a small animal burrowing into its hole, I shift furniture around, and back myself into a cozy corner, with my back to the wall...and then I can write.

Who doesn't need hope in their lives: hope that something can change, that someone cares, that not only bad things happen unexpectedly but good things can happen to us too?

What intrigues me is the difference in how women experience power, and how men do.

Not all forms of abuse leave bruises.

I've shut myself inside these walls, and I'm going to be a very lonely old lady if I'm not careful.

Perfume is like a personal signature, which is why I like to mix my own. For years I've paired Femme by Rochas with Shalimar and love the results.

I'm surprisingly practical in much of my life, but not when it comes to my shoes.

I'm one of them. The weirdos and the freaks. My point was that it's ok to be different, and from now on we'd better be, if we're going to make something of ourselves. It's the one thing I learned in school. Different is ok. -Victoria

I used to think when I had children that somebody else had the rule book and they hadn't given it to me, and everybody else knew how to do it right except me. I find the same thing in writing: you think that everybody knows what they're doing and that you don't.

I write about the things that happen to us all. The things that are tough, the things that matter, from a loved one fighting an illness, to losing a job, being betrayed by somebody you trust, all parts of the human condition. No one is exempt from those things.

Never settle for less than your dreams, somewhere, sometime, someday, somehow, you'll find them

Love is messy. If you really love someone, you can't avoid the pain. People die, people leave, things change, but sometimes it all works

I move between San Francisco and Paris... I have a wonderful beach house in California.

You don’t know how lucky you are, my dear. Don’t waste it with regrets of the places and people you have lost. You have a lifetime to fill, so many good times and good years and great people ahead of you. You must rush to meet it.

I try to give people hope. Even though life is bleak, there's hope out there.

I never met a chocolate I could not eat.

The records of adopted children are sealed in California. That seal is considered inviolable... The judge ruled that, because I was famous, he didn't have the same rights as other kids.

There was nothing you couldn't do if you wanted it bad enough, and were willing to work hard enough to get it.

I like summer. I like warmer weather and long days. I'm one of those silly people who still enjoy lying in the sun - my children are horrified!