Quote by Anna Pavlova
When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I wa

When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away. – Anna Pavlova

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Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work. – Anna Pavlova

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No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius. – Anna Pavlova

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The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves. – Joseph Butler

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The pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. Were all entitled to have the best we can. – Loretta Swit

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The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness. – Heinrich Mann

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number. – William Dean Howells

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