"Anger is only a symptom of what is really going on"
"Yesterday's a cancelled check, tomarrow's a promisary note, but today is cash, spend it wisely."
"I am learning how to live life from a bunch of folks that don't know how to live life....Wow, what a concept."
"A trying time is no time to quit trying."
"Those that matter don't mind and those that mind don't matter."
"When it comes down to it, if I could change anything that I've ever done in my life,(no matter how much I regret some of my choices)I wouldn't change anything because right now I am exactly where I am supposed to be..."
"Those who abandon their dreams will discourage yours"
"I spent a lifetime in hell and it only took me twelve steps to get to heaven."
"Would you like to be right or happy?"
"when i came to recovery i realised that being a child for 28years nearly killed me"
"I have arrived after a meeting began but, the only meeting that I was really late for was the first one I attended - by at least thirty years."
"Remember, don't run so fast that your guardian angel can't keep up"
"Yesterday is history, tomorrow's a mystery, and today is a gift!"
"The only normal people are the one's you don't know very well."
"We have good news and bad news here. The good news is you never have to drink again even if you want to. The bad news is that we're your new friends."
"I am the black sheep of the family. I came to Alcholics Anonymous and found the rest of the herd."
"No Suffer, No GROWTH"
"I don't thank God for opening the gates of Heaven and letting me in, I thank God for opening the gates of Hell and letting me out"
"I didn't want to go to A.A. I had lost alot of friends to A.A.!"
"Slippery Souls need Sober Shoes"
"Happiness keeps You Sweet, Trials keep You Strong, Sorrows keep You Human, Failures keep You Humble, Success keeps You Glowing, But Only God keeps You Going! Keep smiling"
"It's not what I KNOW in recovery that keeps me sober. It's what I DO that keeps me sober."
"I used to be a hopeless dope fiend, today I'm dopeless hope fiend."
"Suit up and Show up, Don't shoot up and throw up"
"If God made anything better than this, He kept it for himself!"
"If I Forget 'What' I am, It doesn't Matter 'Who' I am."
"god helps those who help themselves DO NOTHING AND NOTHING WILL HAPPEN"
"I searched for the enemy that I could not see, when I looked in the mirror the enemy was me."
"Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday so live in the now!"
"Spiritual Awakenings often come in Rude Awakenings, so you better pay attention!"
"Using is like a merry go round and will only stop when i stop putting 20 cents in."
"When you dance with a gorilla it is the gorilla who decides when to stop."
"Justify=Just-if-I would have/could have...!!!! (then I would have/could have!!!)"
"A twelve by twelve is a heavy timber for a person to carry alone. But there can be many helping hands if we just pick up the 'phone."
"It works if you work it, so work it cause you're worth it"
"Thank God for Alcoholics Anonymous and thank Alcoholics Anonymous for God."
"Go Easy!!! And if you can't "Go Easy", GO AS EASY AS YOU CAN...."
"I sought my soul but could no seek. I sought my God but he eluded me. then I sought my brother and found all three."
"Every day is not 100% however, it is a 100% better than my best day of drinking"
"By changing attitudes and finding solutions through our own program of recovery, we can regain our sense of hope, serenity, freedom, and joy..."
"...you know you'll be back, so why don't you just stay?" what a friend said to me after my many trips back 'out' there...
"Alcohol gave me wings and then slowly took away my sky."
"One Day at a time. Keep coming back it realy works!"
"You can live a perfectly normal life, as soon as you realize your life will never be perfectly normal"
"Just because you are having a bad day,dosen,t mean you are having a bad life"
"I only drank on special occasions, like the grand opening of a pack of cigarettes."
"Where ever you go, there you are!"
"Just remember to B-R-E-A-T-H-E... Breathe in God, breathe out self."
"Expectations are resentments waiting to happen."
"If I don't go to meetings, I don't hear what God wants me to hear!"
"Anger is the wind that blows out the candle of the mind"
"Attitudes are contagious... Is yours worth catching?"
"I finally learned to slow down and enjoy life's journey, instead of fast, hard and continuous. I'm at home no matter where I go. Longevity is what I hope to achieve with my sobriety. That's why the turtle is my AA Mascot."
"I heard a great thing the other day I would love to share ...it's called the slipper prayer...pray when you put them on and pray when you put them away at night...then you'll never forget "
"In my disease I was running from the dark. Now that I am in recovery I find that I am walking toward the light."
"My ego keeps me from you and God from me."
"My definition of balance is being able to obsess equally in all areas of my life."
"A problem and a solution cannot both coexist in your mind at the same time."
"A coincidence is when MY will and God's will coincide."
"Meeting Makers Make It!"
"God is the greyhound driver I am the passenger and the only baggage I need to take along today are the steps and the tools."
"A sick mind is a terrible thing to waist. just remember it's for amusment only"
"Remember, once you're a pickle, you can never be a cucumber again."
"It's ok to look back just don't stare"
"I'm not powerless over my recovery; my recovery is progressive."
"I'm not in the results business. I'm in the efforts business. s.l.i.p. = Sobriety Lost Its Priority"
"You don't have to see the whole staircase at once, just the first step, one step at a time."
"I found this quote on a different website and it has made an impact on how I see things today..."Whenever you are in conflict with someone there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship or deepening that relationship..that factor is ATTITUDE""
"The minute I take control that's when I lose control."
"Don't leave 5 minutes before the miracle happens!"
"Resentments are like hemorrhoids, they only effect the a__hole who has them"
"if your knees knock kneel"
"I do not like to pray everyday, so I'll just pray on days that end in Y"
"I looked to a drug for courage, and it made me a coward."
"A resentment is hurting yourself with the hope that someone else will feel the pain."
"Beneath every skirt, there is a slip!"
"Take care of the little things, the bigger things are easier to handle"
"Success is getting up after you fall down."
"Wisdom is knowledge you learn after you know it all."
"Prayers: You need the practice, and I need the prayers!"
"An excuse is nothing more than a thin skin stretched over a bald faced lie."
"We are either working on recovery or we're working on a relapse."
"The sleeper gets nothing but the dream. Attitude is 80% what happens to me and 20% how I deal with it. 90% of our problems are caused by our own thoughts/ We can no longer be content with just getting by. I will fabricate pain to set me up for future pain. If you are not working on the solution you are working on the problem. Stepping out on nothing willing to fall on something!"
"Enjoy life today, it is not a dress rehearsal."
"Seven days without a meeting makes one weak"
"Sometimes you need to lose yourself, before you can find anything....."
"Just keep bring the body. Sooner or later the mind will follow!"
"Surrender, is not being weak and giving up...it's simply coming over to the winning side.. using a power greater than yourself to continue the journey."
"It all works out in the end...if it hasn't worked out yet, it's not the end."
"Things might not get better for me, but I can get better despite things"
"Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are"
"Even if you remove all the rum from a fruitcake, you still have a fruitcake!"
"What happened in the past is over, you can't unscramble scrambled eggs!"
"God Listens to Knee Mail"
"If I could drink like a regular person...I'd drink all the time. Therein lies our paradox..."
"God never closes one door without opening another, but sometimes He makes us wait in the hallway..."
"An oldtimer sharing the slogans that helped him in early sobriety said: 'Die, you bastard, but just don't drink!' the room just cracked up!"
"All you get from sitting on the pity pot is a big ring around your butt."
"In the beginning it is hard to listen to what our sponsors tell us. It's like that kid who yells out, "But mom, I don't want to go to Australia." To which mom yells back, "Shut up, keep swimming." But we need to get into action. Sitting there complaining is not going to get us to Australia- That's not, How It Works..."
"When the door of happiness closes, another opens, but often times we look so long at the closed door, that we don't see the one which has been opened for us."
"Don't forget that the world record is 24 hours"
"Remember one thing, if you walk 10 miles into the woods, you have walk 10 miles to get out, so you might as well just enjoy the walk now that you can remember it."
"TIME=things I must earn"
"Never Alone Never Again" "God got you to it, He'll get you through it"
"Don't plant the fruit of today with the seeds of your past"
"High on coffee and nicotine,I'm a serene machine"
"I've learned to stay out of my own way and let a greater power guide me and it works better than anything I could have ever dreamt up."
"Anything worth doing, is worth doing wrong. Give up perfectionism and replace it with rule #62!"
"NUTS = Not Using The Steps"
"Oh God Why me? Why not you?"
"We Can't Help You - If You Aren't Here!"
"If you want to change who you are, change what you do."
"We might as well " Let Go and Let God " because in the end He is going to do it anyway."
"It's impossible to stumble when you are on your knees."
"The promises tell that I will no longer be afraid of economic insecurity not that I won't be screwed economically."
"Live life today as though you knew you were dying"
"I may not be where I want to be but thank God I am not where I was!!!!!!"
"If your gonna pray for potatoes, you'd better grab a hoe"
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." - Einstein
"What if there were no "what if" to what if about."
"This is my opinion and if you don't agree or like what I have to say then pray for me because I always want to get better"
"Isolation is the dark room I enter to develop my negatives."
"When I am alone and thinking, I am behind enemy lines."
"If the grass is greener on the other side it must be due to all the fertilizer they are putting on it."
"Insanity is as close as saying yes to the wrong impulse."
"If you pray for patience you will be given many opportunities to practice it."
"Time takes time."
"For those still to come, you cannot believe the view from here - wow!"
"Addiction was only a small price I had to pay to get this powerful program in my life today."
"The difference between scared and sacred is how we 'C' ourselves"
"The only problem with isolation is I'm the only one I get my solutions from." (scary thought)
"Sometimes the hardest decision in life is which bridge to cross and which one to burn"
"Things aren't necessarily going wrong just because they're not going my way"
"I'm not where I need to be but thank God I'm not where I used to be"
"Justification and rationalization leads to masturbation because you're just screwing yourself"
"The worst prison is in your own mind"
"You can't stay sober today on yesterday's sobriety"
"I may not be much, but I'm all I think about all day!"
"I would be fine, If I listened to opinions other than just my own......."
"Keep your acceptance level high and your expectation level low!"
"Going to meetings is like taking asprin before a headache."
"I don't know how to make it better but I sure know how to make it worse."
"It's A Really Good Day To Be Clean, But It's A Great Day To Be In Recovery"
"Be good to yourself!"
"There are several paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is the same."
"Dope is liking cutting your throat with an electric razor. It hurts a lot and can take a long time!"
"Things aren't necessarily going wrong just because they're not going my way!"
"Drinking yourself to death is liking cutting your throat with an electric razor. It hurts a lot and takes a long time!"
"Sometimes the hardest decision in life is which bridge to cross and which one to burn!"
"Attitude is the difference between an ordeal and an adventure!"
"I once had the blues because I had no shoes, then when walking down the street I met a man with no feet!"
"Everything can be replaced except you."
"Drinking is a slow suicide, like being nibbled to death by a duck."
"Recovery allows me to break on through to the other side and see the world from a different perspective unencumbered by the bondage of active addiction."
"Recovery is good when you stay out of the drivers seat."
"Doing what is right everyday to the best of my ability insures my recovery ability."
"Being humble isn't that we think less of ourselves, it's that we think of ourselves less."
"My life is my gift from "GOD". What I do with my life is my gift to "GOD""
"Change your attitude or change your sobriety date!"
"People who don`t go to meetings never get to see what happens to people who don`t go to meetings"
"If you don't pick it up, you won't get high ... if you don't see it, you won't pick it up .. if you don't go where it's at, you won't see it .. if you go somewhere else you won't go there .. so go to a meeting."
"I am not the General Manager of the Universe... sometimes I tend to forget that..."
"Happiness is wanting what you do, not doing what you want."
"Reality Is A Nice Place To Visit, But I Really Don't Like Living There."
"A wrong decision isn't forever; it can be reversed. The losses from a delayed decision are forever; they can never be retrieved."
"In order to recover, one must know the difference in having faith in God, and actually TRUSTING God."
"Don't ask someone to be your temporary sponsor, unless you want to stay temporarily sober..."
"I go to a lot meetings because I never know at which one the miracle will happen and I want to be there when it does!"
"If you like everyone you have met at meetings, you haven't been to enough meetings!"
"When you are standing on the edge of all that you have known and are about to step into the darkness, remember that one of two things can happen. Either there will be something solid for you to stand on or you will be taught to fly."
"Give all your problems to "God", he'll be up all night anyway!"
"Feelings of "guilt" are God's way of letting me know I am out of balance spiritually."
"When you have reached the end of all the light that you know, and you must step out into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things will happen: either you will have something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly!"
"I am not guilty; I am accountable."
"It's not my job to to grant awareness."
"Faith isn't the absence of fear but the courage to walk through it."
"When you reach the end of your rope...tie a knot in it and hold on for dear life!"
"The good news is that your feelings come back...The bad news is that your feelings come back."
"Without a program life is like a soup sandwich. No matter how you make it, you always wind up with a mess. "
"We are not human beings learning to become spiritual, we are spiritual beings learning to become human."
"If you hang around the barber shop long enough you're gonna get a hair cut."
"I know I'm alcoholic 'cause I have a low tolerance for reality."
"The first thing you put ahead of your sobriety will be the second thing you lose."
"Nothing is so painful or insurmountable in my journey now. Someone is always there to share life's burdens with me."
"Yesterday is history; tomorrow is a mystery; today is a GIFT - that's why they call it the PRESENT."
"If I get in the urge to pick up, I pray to God that it's the phone that I pick."
"Before recovery I thought I was GOD and now I gave up the job."
"Forgiveness is giving up hope for a better past!"
"I tried to contain myself but I escaped."
"No matter how many times I fall I will always have a chance for a first class life."
"I knew all the words by heart, but I couldn't hear the music!"
"You know you're in recovery when everyone else sees a bum and you see a prospect!"
"We all have the same last name, "Alcoholic!"
"I believe in God Almighty and the Golden Rule. Everything else is just crowd control."
"Recovery is not something you get, it's something you work for."
"We may not have it all together, BUT together we have it ALL!"
"In the beginning, it wasn't the parts of the book that I DIDN'T relate to that worried me... it was the parts of the book that I COULD relate to that worried me "
"If you "think" you have an addiction or alcohol problem, remember where that "thought" came from... A sick mind can't cure a sick mind! We can't do it alone."
"Enjoy the moment, in minute it'll be a memory."
"If your head is full of you - you'll learn nothing new."
"The wreckage of the past is environmentally safe and bio-degradable."
"God forgives in an instant, but character building is a lifetime proposition."
"You have to be clean to learn to live clean."
"Without the pain of INTROSPECT, there will ge no gain of SELF RESPECT."
"We are all crazy, but thank God were not all crazy on the same day!"
"I don't always have to believe what I'm thinking."
"Worrying is praying for something you don't want."
"God does move mountains but you have to bring the shovel!"
"I came into this program to save my ass and found it was attached to my soul."
"Holding a resentment is like drinking a glass of poison and waiting for the other son of bitch to die."
"I used to think I was a social butterfly, but I found out I was just a social fly."
"It's easy to quit drinking, put the plug in the jug. Living life on life's terms is the hard part. To all of those who are in this with me, keep your chin up."
"What you think of me is none of my business."
"Growing Old is Natural... Growing Up is Spiritual..."
"People may not always believe what I say, but they will always believe what I do."
"When alcohol and drugs beat me to my knees, I found I was right where I needed to be."
"Recovery is like sitting on the back of two seater bike... you don't get to steer but you have to keep peddling!"
"I wasn't ready 'til I got beat half to death by the second step!"
"Forget 'Keep Coming Back' and just stay with us."
"I heard that there is actually a new pill that can make a normal drinker out of an alcoholic! Your supposed to take one a day. Shoot, give me 10 or 11 of those suckers!!! If one will do THAT, imagine what 10 would do!"
"Just because you're having a bad day doesn't mean you're having a bad life."
"Do not allow others to upset you; their only power comes from your reaction."
"Do not rent space in your head to other people's sicknesses."
"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 up-stairs, I was 12 steps from a program that is for sure!"
"My head is a bad neighborhood to be in by myself."
"Slogan for HOPE Hang Onto Power Everyday"
"For many years we fought a spiritual battle on a physical plane and lost every time. I dressed the outside and I was nothing but a well dressed lie chased by the naked truth of who I really was."
"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. "
"I used to think that I was 'Large and in charge'."
"You have to change you're playthings, playmates, and playgrounds to change you're future."
"S.P.O.N.S.O.R. = Sober Person Offering Newcomers Suggestions On Recovery."
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,your 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."
"Lifers life.Life aint half bad ,if you don't fight life." Al J. Died Sober
"We addicts have a problem with commitment, consistency, and follow-through."
"I know I'm allergic to alcohol 'cause every time I drink, I break out in handcuffs."
"We pour it out so we don't have to pour it in."
"Addicts don't have relationships, we take hostages!"
"The biggest lie is that we all say we wish we could drink like normies. The truth is we all drank TO forget, TO get obliterated, TO get drunk."
"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."
"The Spirit within you is Stronger than the Spirits you pour in you."
"Around these tables, people let me steal their thoughts and ideas to help me stay sober. To me, this is the one time stealing is acceptable."
"When I say NO to you, I'm saying YES to me."
"You can't experience victory if you refuse to surrender."
"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."
"when trying to be persuaded before came what to be 30-years of sobriety just to consider what AA can give you and how to keep what you have, the response was 'but I don't want to keep my wife'"
"...when I was drinking and drugging all I was concerned about what coming and going... when I was coming and you were going..."
"Resentments take a lot of work. They need to be held close, fed, and kept warn. Cuz if you don't take good care of them, they die. And then what good would a good resentment be, if it died?"
"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."
"where ever I go there I am. alcoholics need 2 things; something to believe in and something to do."
"I was simply existing to drink and drinking for oblivion; caught up in a vicious cycle, catchin' hell and calling it fun."
"The bottom started falling out faster than I could lower my standards."
"When the student is ready, the teacher will appear."
"When you are in fear you should remember to go to you Higher Power and T.R.U.S.T. - Try Really Using Step Three."
"Everything that is coming from inside if it is good or bad is my choice. No More."
"It take a powerful man to rule over all with a loud voice. But it takes a truly wise man to change one person view with a whisper."
"Don't count the Days, Make the Days Count."
"Keep it Simple, Breath In- Breath Out, Don't drink or drug in between Breaths."
"We are all human beings loved into existence by the miracle of God's love."
"had to reconsider or die,i chose to get honest and LIVE!!!"
"Keep Your nose in the Big book"
"I have the patience of a gnat!"
Humility is a perpetual quietness of heart. From Dr. Bobs desk plaque
"Those who piss us off the most are our greatest teachers."
"Addictions are cunning, baffling, powerful and very, very patient!"
"The worlds a tuxedo and Im a brown shoe."
"If I have one eye on yesterday and one eye on tomorrow, I'll be cockeyed today!"
"God, May everyone treat me tomorrow as I treated everyone today."
"I may not always know Gods will But I ALWAYS know what his will is NOT!"
"If your too busy for meetings, Your too damn busy."
"After 15 years in the program, it finally struck me.... The journey is the destination."
"You're not who you think you are."
"I get to take me with me... even in sobriety."
"Judgmental people are doomed to be vain or bitter."
"I tried controlled un manageability... it didn't work."
"God's message to me is 'stay out of the way, but be ready!'"
okay, that was awesome, i just went through the first post and didn't realize there were two more, but yeah i'm going to add my favorite as my signature thing on my posts. thanks
Perfect choice for a signature Juniper! BigV THANK YOU - this is such a magnificent list. my favorite was: "We are not human beings learning to become spiritual, we are spiritual beings learning to become human."
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Hey did ya say 'a bunch of quotes' BigV? That's a jackpot of quotes, yeah... lol... thanks bro, awesome stuff.
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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.
ok Juniper got me focusing on my sig so i got me a sig now too and actually made my own avatar lol. i'm a newbie with graphics software but i like what i managed to put together! yay for being clean and having fun with pink butterflies and graphics software instead of drugs! :P
And I love your new look, Tahir!
-- Edited by Keli at 11:08, 2007-09-10
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Neat graphic work, your avatar... lucky that you can design your own... graphics on the comp have always been a weak link for me... I struggle when my work involves graphics
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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.
yeah big v i just popped on and seen this. Now that was some good reading man. Well i am back to this little crazy man. it is time for his snack. Ill see you guys around. I am off tomorrow so i will be back in action on the board tomorrow. Mad love to all of you guys. and girls.
For me, essence, not the specifics, is important. So, thanks Big V for posting them as the essence of the message in the slogans is the same, whether I'm addicted to alcohol or grass or heroine Sometimes we get too obsessed with perfectionism for our own good. So, I've come to take it all lightly, and yes, I definitely don't want to release my defect of character called intolerance and also close my mind on the message just because someone says the word AA or sober or identifies himself/herself as an alcoholic and not an addict as I think it must be... lol... Believe me, I do get into those modes every now and then though... I have to, is it not, being the addict that I am... lol...
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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.
