Princess Diana Quotes

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

I wish all the mothers, fathers and children out there realize how much I need them and how much I value their support.

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

Any sane person would have left long ago. But I cannot. I have my sons.

I decline to go fox hunting (nor did she want her sons William and Harry to be involved in hunting).

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.

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 love meeting people and helping them.

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.

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

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

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

Death doesn't frighten me.

I understand people's suffering, people's pain, more than you will every know yourself.

As always, a million heartfelt thanks for bringing such joy into this chick's life.

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

I wear my heart on my sleeve.

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

Everybody knew about the bulimia in the family. And they all blamed the failure of the marriage on the bulimia and it's taken them time to think differently. I said I was rejected, I didn't think I was good enough for this family, so I took it out on myself. I could have gone to alcohol. I could have been anorexic. I chose to hurt myself instead of hurting all of you.

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

From the first day I joined that family, nothing could be done naturally any more.

I have a woman's instinct and it's always a good one.

Everybody needs hugs.

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

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.

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

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

I don't go by the rule book

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.

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.

[On the press:] I love working with children, and I have learned to be very patient with them.

... 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.

Whoever is in the distress can call me. I will come running wherever they are.

I've got what my mother's got - however bloody you are feeling you can put on the most amazing show of happiness.

The world is too little aware of the waste of life, limb and land which anti-personnel landmines are causing among some of the poorest people on earth.

Only do what your heart tells you.

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.

It's vital that the monarchy keeps in touch with the people. It's what I try and do.

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

I desperately loved my husband and I wanted to share everything together, and I thought that we were a very good team.

I love to hold people's hands when I visit hospitals, even though they are shocked because they haven't experienced anything like it before, but to me it is a normal thing to do.

My husband asked for the separation and I supported it. We had struggled to keep it going, but obviously we'd both run out of steam.

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

You can't do anything good that you don't feel in your heart.

I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box.