[hprotagonist]

“Don’t be cross, uncle!” said the nephew.

“What else can I be,” returned the uncle, “when I live in such a world of fools as this? Merry Christmas! Out upon merry Christmas! What’s Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books and having every item in ’em through a round dozen of months presented dead against you?

If I could work my will,” said Scrooge indignantly, “every idiot who goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!”

Dickens had this attitude’s number long ago. Do not mistake the writhing in your guts for “an undigested bit of beef”. It’s a more important signal.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/46/46-h/46-h.htm

[demygale]

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? —Mary Oliver, Summer Day

https://www.loc.gov/programs/poetry-and-literature/poet-laur...

[hprotagonist]

“So, friends, every day do something/ that won’t compute.” — Wendell Berry, Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front

https://www.context.org/iclib/ic30/berry/

[johnisgood]

"If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan." - Terence McKenna

[newbie578]

Wow, that is truly a beautiful quote. Thank you!