"A
true sponsor is a person who knows the
words to the song in your heart and is
able to sing them back to you when you
have forgotten those words."
"The
quality of your recovery is
proportional to the quality of your
surrender."
"Being
an alcoholic does not give me
permission to act alcoholically."
"The
Power behind me is greater than the
problem in front of me."
"If
I could drink socially, I'd get drunk
every night!"
"What
other people think of you is none of
your damn business!"
"Having
a resentment is like drinking poison
and expecting someone else to
die."
"We
are attracted to people who share in
our growth and progress, and we lose
interest in those who don't."
"When
you've got one foot in yesterday, and
the other in tomorrow, all you can do
is piss on today."
"You
can't direct the wind, but you can
adjust the sails."
"An
expectation is a premeditated
resentment."
"Work
to become rather than acquire."
"Don't
give up before the Miracle
happens."
"Humility
is not thinking less of yourself, but
thinking of yourself less."
"I
don't stay sober on yesterday's
sobriety."
"The
trouble with my point of view is that
I can't see the point from which I
view it."
"Sooner
or later, I'm going to forget about
myself and tell the truth!"
"Who
then can so softly bind up the wounds
of another, as he who has felt the
same wound himself?" ~Thomas
Jefferson
"Resentment
destroys the container it's kept
in."
"Slips
begin with fault finding."
"I'm
only responsible for the thoughts that
I keep."
"Growth
always moves from the inside
out."
"Faith
flourishes in the garden of
gratitude."
"Focusing
on the moral weaklings of others is a
terrific way of not looking at
yourself."
"Perfectionism
is the highest form of
self-abuse."
"Character
is what you have when no one is
looking."
"God
can't fill someone who is full of
self."
"He
then learns that going into the
secrets of his own mind, he has
descended into the secrets of all
minds." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Be
on guard against the unguarded
moment."
"Think
a drink through to the end."
"Alcoholism
is a sacred disease." ~Carl Jung
"Religion
is sitting in a church thinking about
fishing. Spirituality is fishing
and thinking about God."
"We
plan our slips."
"Love
is an active concern for another
person's welfare."
"If
today, I went out and got shot, I'd
recovery from the bullet wound, but it
wouldn't make me bullet-proof."
"We're
only as sick as our secrets."
"When
you're home by yourself, you're behind
enemy lines."
"AA
is not for people who need it, it's
for people who want it."
"Religion
is for people who are afraid of going
to hell. Spirituality is for
people who have been there."
"AA
won't get me to Heaven, but it opened
up the gates of hell and let me
out."
"When
I'm alone in my head, I'm behind enemy
lines."
"The
only mistakes are those you learn
nothing from."
"This
program changes the way I relate to
me. That's what I'm trying to
do...change the way I relate to
me."
"If
you're not moving away from a drink,
you're moving closer to it."
"I'd
never trade my worst day sober for my
best day drunk."
"AA
does not teach you how to get
sober, it teaches you how to live
sober."
"Drinking
gave me the illusion that I might be
alive."
"I
am one drink away from never being
sober again for the rest of my
life."
"The
reason I'm here is because I'm not all
there."
"There's
no speeding in the trudging
zone."
"Courage
is fear in action."
"God
will heal your broken heart if you
give Him all the pieces."
"My
life hereafter is from this moment
on."
"Courage
is not the absence of fear, but rather
the judgment that something else is
more important than fear."
"Go
often to the house of thy friend, for
weeds choke the unused path."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Thank
you, God, for the beautiful day I'm
going to have if I can just get rid of
my fucking attitude."
"We're
sick people trying to get better, not
bad people trying to be good."
"If
it wasn't for denial my life would be
shit."
"Change
only happens when the pain of holding
on is greater than the fear of letting
go."
"If
it doesn't matter, it doesn't
matter."
"Keep
away from people who try to belittle
your ambitions. Small people
always do that, but the really great
make you feel that you, too, can be
great." ~Mark Twain
"My
sobriety depends on who God is, not
who I am."
"You
cannot save your ass and your face at
the same time."
"Get
a sponsor who is louder than you
head!"
"The
value of the average conversation
could be enormously improved by the
constant use of four simple words, 'I
do not know.'"
"Fear
knocked on my door. I opened it
and there was nobody there."
"If
you refuse to accept anything but the
best, you very often get it."
"Be
careful what you pray for... you just
might get it."
"This
is the sky that Angels would live
in."
"My
mind is out to get me!"
"The
world ain't gonna kiss my ass just
because I'm sober."
"If
you don't hear what you need to hear,
say what you need to hear."
"Don't
let the limits of your imagination
block you from what God can do for
you."
"While
I'm in a meeting, my disease is out in
the parking lot doing push-ups."
"Listen
or thy tongue will keep thee
deaf." ~American Indian Proverb
"People
who don't go to meetings don't hear
about what happens to people who don't
go to meetings."
"You
can't think your way into right
living, you must live your way into
right thinking."
"If
you want to make God laugh, tell Him
your plans for the day."
"United
we stand; divided we stagger."
"There
is an easy answer to your problem that
is neat, plausible and wrong."
"Nervousness
is just God trying to shake the truth
out of you."
"Recognizing
someone else's human dignity cannot
cost you your own."
"Happiness
is not a place you arrive at, but the
way you travel."
"If
God is your co-pilot, switch
seats!"
"If
you always do what you've always done,
you'll always get what you've always
got."
"Pray
daily. God is easier to
talk to than most people."
"Winners
do what they have to do. Losers
do what they want to do."
"Whatever
you put before your sobriety, you will
surely lose."
"Nothing
changes if nothing changes."
"Attitudes
are contagious. Is yours worth
catching?"
"I'm
not much, but I'm all I think
about."
"People
who relapse usually do so because they
accepted the things they could have
changed."
"Meeting
makers make it."
"Conditions
are never just right. People who
delay action until all factors are
favorable do nothing."
"Misery
is optional."
"I
got into recovery when the unknown
became more acceptable than the
known."
"People
didn't recruit me for this program;
alcohol did - and it did a good
job."
"Life
is too short to be small."
"My
drug of choice was, 'Whatcha
got?'"
"Suppose
you were an idiot and suppose you
didn't have a sponsor or work the
steps. Ah, but I repeat
myself."
"I
don't yet know the key to success, but
the key to failure is trying to please
everybody."
"We
are here to confront ourselves through
the eyes of others."
"Do
I believe that I can give out one kind
of behavior and yet receive
another?"
"Talk
does not cook rice."
"A
little kid will take your hand and
enjoy what happens. How did I
get from being that little kid to
believing that I was the Chairman of
the Universe?"
"It
doesn't hurt to cry."
"What
are you doing suffering someone else's
pain?"
"If
you think life's lessons are hard, try
addiction."
"Thank
you God for all you have given me, for
all you have taken away from me, and
for all you have left me."
~Authors Anonymous as in A.A.~
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