I live for my sons. I would be lost without them.
– Princess Diana
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?
– Princess Diana
Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.
– Princess Diana
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.
– Princess Diana
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.
– Princess Diana
I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential.
– Princess Diana
Only do what your heart tells you.
– Princess Diana
A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.
– Princess Diana
Is it a weakness that I lead from my heart and not my head?
– Princess Diana
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.
– Princess Diana
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.
– Princess Diana
Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.
– Princess Diana
I am not a political figure, I am a humanitarian figure, always was, always will be.
– Princess Diana
When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.
– Princess Diana
People think that at the end of the day a man is the only answer. Actually, a fulfilling job is better for me.
– Princess Diana
I work on instinct. It’s my best adviser.
– Princess Diana
Hugs can do great amounts of good – especially for children.
– Princess Diana
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.
– Princess Diana
I don’t go by the rule book; I lead from the heart, not the head.
– Princess Diana
Everybody needs hugs.
– Princess Diana
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.
– Princess Diana
Two things stand like stone: Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in your own.
– Princess Diana
You can’t comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable.
– Princess Diana
I’d like to be a queen in people’s hearts.
– Princess Diana
I think like any marriage, especially when you’ve had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work.
– Princess Diana
I like to be a free spirit. Some don’t like that, but that’s the way I am.
– Princess Diana
HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it.
– Princess Diana
The kindness and the affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods and always your love and affection have eased the journey.
– Princess Diana
The press is ferocious. It forgives nothing, it only hunts for mistakes . . . In my position anyone sane would have left a long time ago.
– Princess Diana
I wear my heart on my sleeve.
– Princess Diana
I touch people. I think everyone needs that. Placing a hand on a friend’s face means making contact.
– Princess Diana
I knew what my job was; it was to go out and meet the people and love them.
– Princess Diana
The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other.
– Princess Diana
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.
– Princess Diana
It’s not sissy to show your feeling.
– Princess Diana
… 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.
– Princess Diana
Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.
– Princess Diana
I want my boys to have an understanding of people’s emotions, their insecurities, people’s distress, and their hopes and dreams.
– Princess Diana
Call me Diana, not Princess Diana.
– Princess Diana
Life is just a journey.
– Princess Diana
Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.
– Princess Diana
So many people supported me through my public life, and I will never forget them.
– Princess Diana
You have so much pain inside yourself that you try & hurt yourself on the outside because you want help.
– Princess Diana