Diana, Princess of Wales Quotes

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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.

Diana, Princess of Wales
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.

Diana, Princess of Wales
When I started my public life, twelve years ago, I understood the media might be interested in what I did. I realized then their attention would inevitably focus on both our private and public lives. But I was not aware of how overwhelming that attention would become. Nor the extent to which it would affect both my public duties and my personal life, in a manner, that's been hard to bear. At the end of this year, when I've completed my diary of official engagements, I will be reducing the extent of the public life I've lead so far.

Diana, Princess of Wales
I always knew I'd never be the next queen. I'd like to be a queen of people's hearts, in people's hearts, but I don't see myself being queen of this country. I don't think many people will want me to be queen.

Diana, Princess of Wales
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
Well, there were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.

Diana, Princess of Wales
If men had to have babies, they would only ever have one each.
While in late pregnancy

Diana, Princess of Wales
Everyone said I was the Marilyn Monroe of the 1980s and I was adoring every minute of it. Actually I've never sat down and said: 'Hooray how wonderful'. Never. The day I do we're in trouble.

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Care in the community is a partnership. A partnership between skilled and caring professionals and a concerned and caring community. Working together, to find new ways of helping these people who've been excluded and connecting them with neighbours who will understand and accept them. By providing, proper funding for the homes they will need and the support they so rightly deserve, we can show them how much we care.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales
Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.

Diana, Princess of Wales
I'd like to be a queen in people's hearts... someone's got to go out there and love people and show it.

Diana, Princess of Wales
These children need to feel the same things as other children. To play, to laugh and cry, to make friends, to enjoy the ordinary experiences of childhood. To feel loved and nurtured and included by the world they live in, without the stigma that AIDS continues to attract.

Diana, Princess of Wales
The worst illness of our time is that so many people have to suffer from never being loved.

Diana, Princess of Wales
She won't go quietly, that's the problem. I'll fight to the end.

Diana, Princess of Wales
From early childhood many had felt they were expected to be perfect, but didn't feel they had the right to express their true feelings to those around them - feelings of guilt of self revulsion and low personal esteem. Creating in them a compulsion to 'disolve like a disprin' and disappear.

Diana, Princess of Wales
I was always told by my family that I was the thick one. That I was stupid and my brother was the clever one. And I was always so conscious of that. I used to go to the head mistress crying saying I wish I wasn't so stupid.

Diana, Princess of Wales
I touch people. I think everyone needs that. Placing a hand on a friend's face means making contact.

Diana, Princess of Wales
It takes professionalism to convince a doubting public that it should accept back into its midst many of those diagnosed as psychotics, neurotics and other sufferers who Victorian communities decided should be kept out of sight in the safety of mental institutions.

Diana, Princess of Wales
HIV doesn't make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug. Heaven knows they need it.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales