Week Four: Resonant Phrases

Stop saying "It's okay," when you mean something else.
Extreme emotions can trigger an avoidance of the morning pages (where you will be forced to deal with them).
Chekhov: "If you want to work on your art, work on your life." (In order to have self-expression, we must know the self to express).
Conditioned as we are to accept other people's definitions of us, emerging individuality can seem like self-will run riot. It isn't.
You may long for the time when there was no sense of possibility, when you felt more victimized, when you didn't realize how many small things you could do to improve your own life.

Lastly, from the sidebar quotes, this zen paradigm offers interesting food for thought:
"Stop thinking and talking about it and there is nothing you will not be able to know."