Princess Diana
Diana, Princess of Wales (born 1 July 1961 - 31 August 1997)
Lady Diana Spencer (Born 1961 – Died 1997), became Diana, Princess of Wales (but was publicly known as Princess Diana) and a member of the British royal family when she married the Prince of Wales “Prince Charles” the Queen’s first son. She is the mother of HRH Prince William (future King) and HRH Prince Henry (nicknamed Harry) Here are the brainy, inspirational and brave quotes she left behind. Princess Diana Quotes: 1. “Family is the most important thing in the world.” Princess Diana 2. “I’d like to be a queen in people’s hearts but I don’t see myself being queen of this country.” Princess Diana 3. “When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.” Princess Diana 4. “I knew that something profound was coming my way and I was just treading water, waiting for it. I didn’t know what it was. But I knew I was different from my friends in where I was going.” Princess Diana 5. “I like to be a free spirit. Some don’t like that, but that’s the way I am.” Princess Diana 6. “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 7. “Only do what your heart tells you.” Princess Diana 8. “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 9. “I don’t go by the rule book…I lead from the heart, not the head.” Princess Diana 10. “I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved” Princess Diana 11. “Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.” Princess Diana 12. “Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.” Princess Diana 13. “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 14. “I want my boys to have an understanding of people’s emotions, their insecurities, people’s distress, and their hopes and dreams.” Princess Diana 15. “If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.” Princess Diana 16. “…and if you were lucky enough to find someone who loved you, then you must protect it.” Princess Diana 17. “Anywhere I see suffering that is where I want to be, doing what I can.” Princess Diana 18. “Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.” Princess Diana 19. “Hugs can do great amounts of good—especially for children.” Princess Diana 20. “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 21. “A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.” Princess Diana 22. “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 23. “I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.” Princess Diana 24. “So many people supported me through my public life, and I will never forget them.” Princess Diana 25. “Life is just a journey.” Princess Diana 26. “My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.” Princess Diana 27. “I knew what my job was; it was to go out and meet the people and love them.” Princess Diana 28. “Call me Diana, not Princess Diana.” Princess Diana 29. “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 30. “Being a princess isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.” Princess Diana 31. “I am not a political figure, I am a humanitarian figure, always was, always will be.” Princess Diana 32. “The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other.” Princess Diana 33. “It’s vital that the monarchy keeps in touch with the people. It’s what I try and do.” Princess Diana 34. “Is it a weakness that I lead from my heart and not my head?” Princess Diana 35. “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 36. “I touch people. I think everyone needs that. Placing a hand on a friend’s face means making contact.” Princess Diana 37. “Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.” Princess Diana 38. “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 39. “I live for my sons. I would be lost without them.” Princess Diana 40. “I wear my heart on my sleeve.” Princess Diana 41. “Two things stand like stone: Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in your own.” Princess Diana 42. “The day I walked down the aisle at St. Paul’s Cathedral, I felt that my personality was taken away from me, and I was taken over by the royal machine.” Princess Diana 43. “Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.” Princess Diana 44. “It took a long time to understand why people were so interested in me.”Princess Diana 45. “You can’t comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable.” Princess Diana 46. “I’d like to be a queen of people’s hearts, in people’s hearts, but I don’t see myself being the queen of this country.”Princess Diana 47. “People think at the end of the day that a man is the only answer to fulfillment. Actually, a job is better for me.”Princess Diana 48. “I felt compelled to perform. Well, 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.”Princess Diana 49. “I’m aware that people I have loved and have died and are in the spirit world looking after me.” Princess Diana 50. “I should never have played with fire and I did. And I got very burned.” Princess Diana 51. “The worse illness of our time is that so many people have to suffer from never being loved.” Princess Diana 52. “There’s no better way to dismantle a personality than to isolate it.” Princess Diana 53. “You can’t do anything good that you don’t feel in your heart.” Princess Diana 54. “I’ve got to have a place where I can find peace of mind.” Princess Diana 55. “I’d like people to think of me as someone who cares about them.” Princess Diana 56. “I have a woman’s instinct and it’s always a good one.” Princess Diana 57. “From the first day I joined that family, nothing could be done naturally anymore.” Princess Diana 58. “I understand that change is frightening for people, especially if there’s nothing to go to. It’s best to stay where you are. I understand that.” Princess Diana 59. “I am all about caring. I have always been like that.” Princess Diana 60. “I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.” Princess Diana
Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee, born Lee Jun-fan (November 27, 1940 - July 20, 1973), was a Hong Kong and American martial artist, also martial arts instructor, actor, director and philosopher. He is also our favorite. Here are Bruce Lee Quotes: “I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.” Bruce Lee “Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one” Bruce Lee “Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.” Bruce Lee “Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.” Bruce Lee “Be happy, but never satisfied.” Bruce Lee “Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.” Bruce Lee “A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.” Bruce Lee “Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.” Bruce Lee “I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.” Bruce Lee “If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.” Bruce Lee “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.” Bruce Lee “You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water my friend.” Bruce Lee “A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.” Bruce Lee “Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.” Bruce Lee “It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.” Bruce Lee “To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.” Bruce Lee “The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.” Bruce Lee “The doubters said, Man cannot fly; the doers said, maybe, but we’ll try. And finally soared. In the morning glow while non-believers watched from below.” Bruce Lee “If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.” Bruce Lee “Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.” Bruce Lee “Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.” Bruce Lee “Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.” Bruce Lee “A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.” Bruce Lee “Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.” Bruce Lee “A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence. ” Bruce Lee “Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.” Bruce Lee “For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.” Bruce Lee “The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.” Bruce Lee “Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life! Do not be concerned with escaping safely- lay your life before him!!” Bruce Lee “If there is a God, he is within. You don't ask God to give you things, you depend on God for your inner theme.” Bruce Lee “A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.” Bruce Lee “Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.” Bruce Lee “Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one .” Bruce Lee “Are you going to let the obstacles in your life be stumbling blocks or stepping stones? Choose the positive. You are the master of your attitude.” Bruce Lee “I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.” Bruce Lee “When you say that something is impossible, you have made it impossible.” Bruce Lee “Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.” Bruce Lee “Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.” Bruce Lee “Everyone wants to learn how to win, but no one wants to learn how to accept defeat.” Bruce Lee “In the middle of chaos lies opportunity.” Bruce Lee “Remember, success is a journey not a destination. Have faith in your ability. You will do just fine.” Bruce Lee “If you want to learn to swim you have to throw yourself in the water.” Bruce Lee “Simplicity is the key to brilliance.” Bruce Lee “Emotion can be the enemy, if you give into your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with your emotion, because the body always follows the mind.” Bruce Lee “Give recognition where it is due. Compliments stimulate more effort and desire to improve. Be generous with honest praising.” Bruce Lee “The mind is like a fertile garden in which anything that is planted, flowers or weeds, will grow.” Bruce Lee “Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.” Bruce Lee “Your state of mind is everything.” Bruce Lee “Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.” Bruce Lee “The biggest adversary in our life is ourselves. We are what we are, in a sense, because of the dominating thoughts we allow to gather in our head. All concepts of self-improvement, all actions and paths we take, relate solely to our abstract image of ourselves. Life is limited only by how we really see ourselves and feel about our being. A great deal of pure self-knowledge and inner understanding allows us to lay an all-important foundation for the structure of our life from which we can perceive and take the right avenues.” Bruce Lee “Without frustration you will not discover that you might be able to do something on your own. We grow through conflict.” Bruce Lee “We should devote ourselves to being self-sufficient and must not depend upon the external ratings by others for our happiness.” Bruce Lee “To be what I term a 'quality' human being one has to be transparently real and have the courage to be what he is.” Bruce Lee “There is no such thing as maturity. There is instead an ever-evolving process of maturing. Because when there is a maturity, there is a conclusion and a cessation. That’s the end. That’s when the coffin is closed. You might be deteriorating physically in the long process of aging, but your personal process of daily discovery is ongoing. You continue to learn more and more about yourself every day.” Bruce Lee “Anxiety is the gap between the NOW and the THEN. So if you are in the NOW, you can't be anxious, because your excitement flows immediately into ongoing spontaneous activity.” Bruce Lee
