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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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Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits. – Anna Pavlova

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Happiness
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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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Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. – Fyodor Dostoevsky

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The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it. – Diane Lane

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To me, flowers are happiness. – Stefano Gabbana

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Im aware that people I have loved and have died and are in the spirit world look after me. – Princess of Wales Diana

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Architecture is inhabited sculpture. – Constantin Brancusi

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An inveterate quote plucker is what I have become. – Elaine Bernstein Partnow, preface to The Quotable Woman: From Eve to 1799, 1985

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Matilda told such dreadful lies,
It made one gasp and stretch ones eyes;
Her aunt, who from her earliest youth,
Had kept a strict regard for truth,
Attempted to believe Matilda:
The effort very nearly killed her. – Hilaire Belloc

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