Like most of the world, we’re still mourning Tina Turner, who ascended to Buddhahood last week. We talked at length about Tina on Friday’s podcast, and one of the books we mentioned was her final book: Happiness Becomes You: A Guide to Changing Your Life for Good, a gem of wisdom and beauty and inspiration. We cannot recommend this book highly enough! Purchase this life-changing tome here:
In addition to the many words of wisdom from Tina Turner herself, the last book she wrote features a multitude of inspiring quotes that she loved. In honor of Tina, below are just a few of her favorite quotations (purchase the book to read many more!), from Frederick Douglass to Marcus Aurelius to Dolly Parton to Ursula K. Le Guin!
“Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out.” — Katherine Dunham [Source: AZquotes]
“No one can figure out your worth but you.” — Pearl Bailey [Source: AZquotes]
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” — Marcus Aurelius [Source: AZquotes]
“If you can't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?” — RuPaul [Source: AZquotes]
“Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.” — Wilma Rudolph [Source: AZquotes]
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” — Aristotle [Source: AZquotes]
“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.” — James Baldwin [Source: AZquotes]
“The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.” — Ruby Dee [Source: AZquotes]
“If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.” — Dolly Parton [Source: AZquotes]
“If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.” — Marvin Gaye [Source: AZquotes]
“What really matters is not whether we have problems, but how we go through them. We must keep going on to make it through whatever we are facing.” — Rosa Parks [Source: AZquotes]
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” — Helen Keller [Source: AZquotes]
“Through our scientific and technological genius we've made of this world a neighborhood. And now through our moral and ethical commitment we must make of it a brotherhood. We must all learn to live together as brothers or we will all perish together as fools.” — Martin Luther King, Jr. [Source: AZquotes]
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.” — Mahatma Gandhi [Source: AZquotes]
“Maybe the purpose of being here, wherever we are, is to increase the durability and occasions of love among and between peoples.” — June Jordan [Source: AZquotes]
“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.” — Chief Seattle [Source: AZquotes]
“Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.” — Simone de Beauvoir [Source: AZquotes]
“It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” — Ursula K. Le Guin [Source: AZquotes]
“You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.” — Frederick Douglass [Source: AZquotes]
“Life is the most precious of all treasures. Even one extra day of life is worth more than ten million ryo of gold.” — Nichiren [Source: AZquotes]
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Beautiful, inspirational and profound, especially because those who were quoted lived lives of suffering and struggle.