Princess Diana Quotes

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.

Perhaps we're too embarrassed to change or too frightened of the consequences of showing that we actually care. But why not risk it anyway? Begin today. Carry out a random act of seemingly senseless kindness, with no expectation of reward or punishment, safe in the knowledge that one day, someone somewhere might do the same for you.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.

A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.

I don't go by the rule book... I lead from the heart, not the head.

Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.

I wear my heart on my sleeve.

Loneliness is the worst pain in this world. It constantly eats away the person's heart, and can cause the person to hate, to feel enraged. It is like a wound of the heart; the type of wounds that cannot go away with a kiss or a hug. The only thing that can make this great pain go away is love and compassion, another human heart to pull them out of this hell.

I knew what my job was; it was to go out and meet the people and love them.

Only do what your heart tells you.

I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that.

The worse illness of our time, is that so many people have to suffer from never being loved

Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children.

The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other.

HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it.

What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

You have so much pain inside yourself that you try & hurt yourself on the outside because you want help.

It has always been my concern to touch people with leprosy, trying to show in a simple action that they are not reviled, nor are we repulsed.

Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.

The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved.

I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am.

They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?

Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be.

I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams.

If men had to have babies, they would only ever have one each.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

The public wanted a fairy princess to come and touch them and everything would turn to gold. Little did they realise that the individual is crucifying herself inside because she didn't think she was good enough.

I don't want expensive gifts; I don't want to be bought. I have everything I want. I just want someone to be there for me, to make me feel safe and secure.

... I'm much closer to the people at the bottom than the people at the top, and the latter won't forgive me for it.

There's no better way to dismantle a personality than to isolate it.

I'd like to be queen of people's hearts.

I live for my sons. I would be lost without them.

Death doesn't frighten me.

I always thought Camilla was the perfect love match with Charles.

I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and feel that I am needed. I want to do, not just to be.

Yes, I do touch. I believe that everyone needs that

I think when I came into marriage -- especially when you've had divorced parents like myself... You'd want to try even harder to make it work and you don't want to fall back into a pattern that you've seen happen in your own family. I desperately want it to work; I desperately love my husband and I wanted to share everything together. And I thought that we were a very good team.

The people that I care about are the people out there on the street. I can identify with them.

I do things differently, because I don't go by a rule book, because I lead from the heart, not the head, and albeit that's got me into trouble in my work, I understand that.

Everybody needs hugs.

I went to the school and put it to William, particularly, that if you find someone you love in life, you must hang onto it, and look after it, and if you were lucky enough to find someone who loved you, then you must protect it.

Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.

Life is just a journey.

It's not sissy to show your feeling.

I work on instinct. It's my best adviser.

I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.

Being constantly in the public eye gives me a special responsibility, particularly that of using the impact of photographs to transmit a message, to sensitize the word to an important cause, to defend certain values.

I was compelled to perform. When I say perform, I was compelled to go out and do my engagements and not let people down and support them and love them. In a way, by being out in public, they supported me although they weren't aware of just how much healing they were giving me. It carried me through.