· "Judgmental people are doomed to be vain or bitter."
· "Justification and rationalization leads to masturbation because you're just screwing yourself"
· "Forgiveness is giving up hope for a better past!"
· "We all have the same last name, "Addict!"
· "I came into this program to save my ass and found it was attached to my soul."
· "When drugs beat me to my knees, I found I was right where I needed to be."
· "My head is a bad neighborhood to be in by myself."
· "For many years we fought a spiritual battle on a physical plane and lost everytime. I dressed the outside and I was nothing but a well dressed lie chased by the naked truth of who I really was."
· "When the student is ready, the teacher will appear."
· "Don't count the Days, Make the Days Count."
· "Those who piss us off the most are our greatest teachers."
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"If we do an honest examination of exactly what we are giving, we are better able to evaluate the results we are getting."Chapter 10 - Emotional Pain - NA Way of Life.
· "With every Step I take, God holds the Solution; however I have to be Willing to Work for my Surrender."
· "I only have two active brain cells left... and today they aren't speaking to each other."
· "The bottom started falling out faster than I could lower my standards."
· “T.R.U.S.T. - Try Really Using Step Three."
· "It takes a powerful man to rule over all with a loud voice. But it takes a truly wise man to change one person’s view with a whisper."
· "We are all human becomings loved into existence by the miracle of God's love."
· “Humility is a perpetual quietness of heart.”
· "God, May everyone treat me tomorrow as I treated everyone today."
· "I may not always know God’s will, But I ALWAYS know what His will is NOT!"
· "After 15 years in the program, it finally struck me... The journey is the destination."
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"If we do an honest examination of exactly what we are giving, we are better able to evaluate the results we are getting."Chapter 10 - Emotional Pain - NA Way of Life.
Wow, thanks guys, for those awesome recovery quotes. Great stuff. Mind-blowing. Keep them a coming...
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"If we do an honest examination of exactly what we are giving, we are better able to evaluate the results we are getting."Chapter 10 - Emotional Pain - NA Way of Life.
"We all used for the same reason, to change the way we feel. We feel the way we feel because we think the way we think. The program helps me to change the way I think, thus the way I feel, without having to pick up an intoxicating substance."
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"If we do an honest examination of exactly what we are giving, we are better able to evaluate the results we are getting."Chapter 10 - Emotional Pain - NA Way of Life.
· "We addicts have a problem with commitment, consistency, and follow-through."
· "Addicts don't have relationships, we take hostages!"
· "After returning home from a business meeting I found myself with a huge resentment for a fellow at the meeting that was really bugging me. I immediately called my sponsor to "complain". My Sponsor stopped me mid scream and said, "do you have a mirror?" Of course, I said "Yes, in the bathroom." My sponsor then instructed me to hang up the phone, go into the bathroom, turn on the light, look in the mirror and you will find the S.O.B that is bugging you."
· "When I say NO to you, I'm saying YES to me."
· "You can't experience victory if you refuse to surrender."
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"If we do an honest examination of exactly what we are giving, we are better able to evaluate the results we are getting."Chapter 10 - Emotional Pain - NA Way of Life.
· "I went to the first meeting and didn't know what they were talking about; the only bit I could understand was when they said keep coming back. So I did that. "
· Why I go to meetings: "It is difficult to solve a problem with the same mind that created it."
· "If you always do what you always did, you'll always get what you always got!"
· "With one leg in yesterday, and one leg in tomorrow, you’re pissing on today."
· "God's will is to be of maximum service to others without regard of cost to self. Self will is to be of maximum service to self without regard of cost to others."
· "Life’s life. Life ain’t half bad, if you don’t fight life."
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"If we do an honest examination of exactly what we are giving, we are better able to evaluate the results we are getting."Chapter 10 - Emotional Pain - NA Way of Life.
WOW, THAT'S AN AWESOME QUOTE. BULL'S EYE! THANX...
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"If we do an honest examination of exactly what we are giving, we are better able to evaluate the results we are getting."Chapter 10 - Emotional Pain - NA Way of Life.
True happiness and freedom only come when our spirits are at peace with how we live and with the choices we are making in life. stolen from eli...lol...but i just love this quote.
· "The definition of faith is believing what you cannot see. The reward of faith is seeing what you believe."
· "If we stay clean JUST FOR TODAY...we will never relapse...because...EVERYDAY IS TODAY."
· "What I used to call boredom, I now call serenity."
· "Dear God, I understand No, I understand Yes, I don't understand WAIT."
· "I was really crazy, definitely missing something upstairs; I was 12 steps from a program that is for sure!"
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"If we do an honest examination of exactly what we are giving, we are better able to evaluate the results we are getting."Chapter 10 - Emotional Pain - NA Way of Life.
· "You can't stay clean today on yesterday's recovery"
· "If your head is full of you - you'll learn nothing new."
· "I don't always have to believe what I'm thinking."
· "Do not rent space in your head to other people's sicknesses."
· "We are not human beings learning to become spiritual, we are spiritual beings learning to become human."
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"If we do an honest examination of exactly what we are giving, we are better able to evaluate the results we are getting."Chapter 10 - Emotional Pain - NA Way of Life.
"No matter how hard we try to think, study or talk the program, it will never work. For it to work, we have to feel the program by living it in our daily life..."
Another one of my Sponsor's:
"The Steps ARE the program, and living the program IS recovery, not merely staying clean."
Another one from my Sponsor that made a strong impact on me right from my early recovery:
"Work the program, not the problems."
One more:
"Our defects of character is where our growth is!"
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"If we do an honest examination of exactly what we are giving, we are better able to evaluate the results we are getting."Chapter 10 - Emotional Pain - NA Way of Life.
However, none of the steps work by magic. We do not just say the words of the steps; We learn to live them. We see for ourselves that the program has something to offer us.
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"If we do an honest examination of exactly what we are giving, we are better able to evaluate the results we are getting."Chapter 10 - Emotional Pain - NA Way of Life.
We are powerless not only over drugs, but over addiction as well. We need to admit this fact in order to recover. Addiction is a physical, mental and spiritual disease that affects every area of our lives.
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"If we do an honest examination of exactly what we are giving, we are better able to evaluate the results we are getting."Chapter 10 - Emotional Pain - NA Way of Life.
Found this quote after I came into recovery and have since shared it with many and know many who now use it and apply it to their recovery. This has come to be one of the truest things in my life since I have found recovery...............
When we change the way we look at things the things we look at change". Afterall changing our way of thinking is one of the things we do through the 12 Step journey.
Like the lion WE WANT WHAT WE WANT and we'll go to any lengths (pun intended) to get what we want even if we have to put ourselves in danger, I got that out of it too.
Good one Sheree I have read that before and it's so true.
We are not who our Ego tells us we are, and others are not what our Ego tells us they are...
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"If we do an honest examination of exactly what we are giving, we are better able to evaluate the results we are getting."Chapter 10 - Emotional Pain - NA Way of Life.
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