I adore him? I have never been so happy. I have real love.
—Diana, Princess of Wales
Topics: Love
It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?
—Diana, Princess of Wales
Topics: Heart
I’m aware that people I have loved and have died and are in the spirit world look after me.
—Diana, Princess of Wales
Topics: Spirit, Spirituality
What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?
—Diana, Princess of Wales
Topics: Fashion
The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other.
—Diana, Princess of Wales
Topics: Tolerance
I am all about caring. I have always been like that.
—Diana, Princess of Wales
Topics: Service
I like to be a free spirit. Some don’t like that, but that’s the way I am.
—Diana, Princess of Wales
Topics: Choice
Hugs can do great amounts of good—especially for children.
—Diana, Princess of Wales
Topics: Children
I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.
—Diana, Princess of Wales
Topics: Love
So many people supported me through my public life and I will never forget them.
—Diana, Princess of Wales
Topics: Aid, Assistance, Help
I wish all the mothers, fathers and children out there realize how much I need them and how much I value their support.
—Diana, Princess of Wales
Topics: Parents, Parenting
Whoever is in the distress can call me. I will come running wherever they are.
—Diana, Princess of Wales
Topics: Aid, Help, Assistance
It’s not sissy to show your feeling.
—Diana, Princess of Wales
Topics: Feelings
Don’t call me an icon. I’m just a mother trying to help.
—Diana, Princess of Wales
Topics: Names, Identity
This boy is dead now, I knew it before taking him in my arms, I can remember his face, his suffering, his voice.
—Diana, Princess of Wales
Topics: Memory
If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.
—Diana, Princess of Wales
Topics: Love
I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I’m very happy to do that and I want to do that.
—Diana, Princess of Wales
Topics: Love
My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.
—Diana, Princess of Wales
Topics: Love
I live for my sons. I would be lost without them.
—Diana, Princess of Wales
Topics: Purpose
Death doesn’t frighten me.
—Diana, Princess of Wales
Topics: Death, Dying
On privacy and the birth of Prince William: I felt the whole country was in labor with me.
—Diana, Princess of Wales
Topics: Motherhood
When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.
—Diana, Princess of Wales
Topics: Forgiveness
I’d like people to think of me as someone who cares about them.
—Diana, Princess of Wales
Topics: Reputation
Call me Diana, not Princess Diana.
—Diana, Princess of Wales
Topics: Royalty, Kings, Queens
I wear my heart on my sleeve.
—Diana, Princess of Wales
Topics: Heart
I understand people’s suffering, people’s pain, more than you will every know yourself.
—Diana, Princess of Wales
Topics: Understanding
Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.
—Diana, Princess of Wales
Topics: Service, Helping
Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.
—Diana, Princess of Wales
Topics: Potential, Service
I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.
—Diana, Princess of Wales
Topics: Fighting, Fight
At the age of 19, you always think you are prepared for everything and you think you have the knowledge of what?s coming ahead.
—Diana, Princess of Wales
I have a woman’s instinct and it’s always a good one.
—Diana, Princess of Wales
Topics: Intuition
I think like any marriage, especially when you’ve had divorced parents like myself, you’d want to try even harder to make it work.
—Diana, Princess of Wales
Topics: Marriage
The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey.
—Diana, Princess of Wales
Topics: Kindness
Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.
—Diana, Princess of Wales
Topics: Aid, Help, Assistance
You can’t comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable.
—Diana, Princess of Wales
Topics: Conflict
No one sat me down with a piece of paper and said, “This is what is expected of you.” But I’m lucky enough in the fact that I have found my role; I love being with people?
—Diana, Princess of Wales
Topics: Purpose
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.
—Diana, Princess of Wales
Topics: Service
Family is the most important thing in the world.
—Diana, Princess of Wales
Topics: Family
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.
—Diana, Princess of Wales
Topics: Security
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 or reward or punishment. Safe in the knowledge that one day, someone somewhere might do the same for you.
—Diana, Princess of Wales
Topics: Service
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