Ars Longa, Vitae Brevis

Eleanor • 26 • MD

[fernand0adnan]

[desescrita]

“Excellence is mundane. Superlative performance is really a confluence of dozens of small skills or activities, each one learned or stumbled upon, which have been carefully drilled into habit and then are fitted together in a synthesized whole. There is nothing extraordinary or superhuman in any one of those actions; only the fact that they are done consistently and correctly, and all together, produce excellence. […] there is no secret; there is only the doing of all those little things, each one done correctly, time and again, until excellence in every detail becomes a firmly ingrained habit, an ordinary part of one’s everyday life.”

— Daniel F. Chambliss, The Mundanity of Excellence

[thesweetiepienovels]

Some is better than none. Some is better than none. Some is better than none. Walking for three minutes, is better than nothing. Drinking a glass of water and eating a snack, is better than nothing. Wiping down the counter, is better than nothing. Small things are not nothing. Small things are not nothing. Small things are not nothing. You don’t have to achieve grand things if all you’re capable of right now is the smaller things. They are still achievements. Don’t do nothing just because you don’t think you’re capable of doing bigger things, just do something you’re capable of today. 

[petaltexturedskies]

Dacia Maraini, tr. by Tim Vode, from “Dreams of Clytemnestra” wr. c. 1994

[oshiwambo]

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Chinese Egg Noodles- Handmade Version

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Is this how you roll?

[sentimentalbeing2001]

My little corner of heaven

[placeeee]

[frrenzetic]

[redrola]

[parkchanwoohoo]

Once you start noticing how the incapacity to handle discomfort affects how people live their lives it's actually pretty shocking how it ruins pretty much every conceivable aspect of existence. Interpersonal relationships, romantic and platonic. Career and education opportunities. Your politics Your willingness to go anywhere. The kind of food you eat. The kind of art you expose yourself to and your ability to read it. It's never just one thing, it touches everything, and once you notice it it's like suddenly being able to see germs or something. Just this horrific catastrophe people look at you askance for screaming about. As I grow older and see what became of my friends and peers who could not learn to handle discomfort, the more I'm like. This is a genuine societal issue

[her-written-thoughts]

and then suddenly everything worked out in your favor.

[sassydw]

[sorrrowfull]

[icecreamwithjackdaniels]

Andreas Achenbach (German, 1815–1910), "Storm at Sea off the Norwegian Coast" (details III), 1837. Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main.

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