LEFT FOOT, RIGHT FOOT
One day at a time,
Easy does it
First things first.
Read the Big Book.
Keep it simple.
Fear is the opposite of faith.
God doesn't make junk.
To thine own self be true.
think, THINK, think
You can make things happen, but you can't make them work.
Life is what happens while you're making plans.
Become, and remain teachable.
Half measures availed us nothing.
99% commitment is a bitch; 100% is a cinch.
The elevator to sobriety is broken. Use the steps.
Alcohol is a beverage; alcoholism is a way of life.
There is a big difference between freedom and bondage.
If you want to find your bottom, you have to stop digging.
Humble yourself before you get humiliated
Gain the ability to ask for help.
If there's something you can do about it, then do it.
The only thing that is consistent is change.
It's easier to fight with you than it is to look at me.
I fought and I lost; I fought and I lost; I surrendered and I won.
It's my way or the HIGHwaY.
When one door closes, another one opens.
Say what you mean, and mean what you say.
Analysis Paralysis
Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.
You finally have choices.
Exercise the ability to make choices.
Do you want to live, or do you want to exist?
Eventually, we have to give up hope for a better past.
Anything beyond your control is not your problem.
It's a cinch by the inch; it's hard by the yard
If you always do what you always did, you'll always get what you always
got.
If you want what you've never had, you have to do what you've never done.
If you always want, you'll never be satisfied
Most people don't know what they want because they put most of their
energy into preventing what they don't want,
Honesty without love is brutality. Honesty with love is integrity.
We are here to comfort the disturbed, and to disturb the comfortable.
Expectations are premeditated resentments.
When you're green, you grow, and when you're ripe, you rot.
If you happen to step into crap, step out of it.
You have to walk through the muck to get to the flowers.
Stop and smell the roses.
If you know it and don't do it, you don't know it.
The quality of my life is directly proportional to the commitments that I
make and keep.
A moron knows what he knows. A wise man knows what he doesn't.
When you go to bed at night, turn your troubles over to God He's going to
be up anyway.
God, grant me the patients for unanswered prayer.
Just keep doing your best, pray that it's blessed, and God will do the
rest.
For those who understand, no explanation is necessary; for those who don't
understand, no explanation will do.
It's none of my business what other people think of me.
No one can hurt your feelings unless you let them.
You alone can make or break your peace of mind
It's not your situation that makes you sad or glad, It's your reaction to it.
Act, don't react. Live your own life.
It is no crime not to be perfect.
Have the courage to make mistakes.
A mistake is evidence that someone has tried to do something.
Accept the fact that no one can really understand you, and that you can
never really understand any other human being.
Accept the fact that you are no better than anybody else, and no worse.
Find out who's really got the problem.
I'll not treat people like 5 year olds, even if they act like it.
A friend is someone who knows all about you, and still loves you.
A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future,
and accepts you today, just the way you are.
True happiness comes when you can look at yourself, and like what you see.
Happiness is not having what you want, it's wanting what you have.
Jealousy does not show how much you love someone, but how insecure you
really are.
Revenge is sweet, but it can go sour.
Life at best is no bargain. Enjoy the ups, and tough out the downs.
Control your feelings, or they will control you.
No one can disgrace anyone but himself
Feel inadequate? Shame on you.
You are responsible for yourself, to yourself, and to God
You are not responsible for any other adult human being.
Don't try to carry the world on your shoulders. You are no Atlas.
Setbacks are a part of life; don't let them throw you.
It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
It does not matter what you think or what you feel. It's what you do that
counts.
You can control your feelings by controlling your thoughts.
If you don't do it, no one can do it for you.
Self-discipline is the basis for emotional stability.
Seriousness is a curable disease.
Stop taking your feelings so seriously and acting on them like they were
valid judgments.
Feelings aren't facts. Because you feel a thing is so, doesn't make it so.
You can't afford the luxury of resentment, anger, anxiety, worry, fear,
hate, envy, jealousy, self-pity or unwarranted guilt. Nothing matters, except to
keep breathing.
A man takes a drink, the drink takes a drink, the drink takes the man.
Talk straight, and listen good
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Lord, I believe. Help my unbelief
Religion is for people who are trying to stay out of hell. Spirituality is
for people who have
already been there.
Be grateful for what you have, and for what you don't have, so that there
is no time to be ungrateful.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty.
God, grant me the courage to know the truth about myself no matter how
good the news may be.
Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay. Love is not love until you
give it away.
Let go and let God
Fake it 'til you make it.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may
not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
I can't,- he can. I think I'll let him.
Pro-act; don't re-act.
Take the cotton out of your ears and put it in your mouth.
Happiness is a choice, Choose it.
I can't change you. I can change me.
The only thing that has to change is everything.
It works if you work it.
Bring your body, and your mind will follow.
Just let my best be good enough for today.
Tie a knot in the rope and hang on.
Courage doesn't mean you don't have fear. It just means you learn how to
get over it.
It's not the love of power, but the power of love that counts.
You're only as sick as the secrets you keep.
Slow growth is good growth.
Sow a thought, reap an act.
Sow an act, reap a habit.
Sow a habit, reap a character.
Sow a character, reap a destiny.
If you're new, you may not be able to believe this, but we need you as
much as you need us. Stick around and find out what that means.
A dry drunk is being angry without anybody you can blame.
An expectation is a resentment under construction.
Harboring a resentment is like drinking poison and expecting the other
person to die.
Speaker meetings help me remember where I came from; Step meetings show
me where I'm going.
Seven days without a meeting makes one weak.
Meeting-makers make it.
Constant vigilance, my sponsor says. So the only place I can sit back
and relax is in the front row of a meeting.
I am blessed with the serious proclivity for compulsivity.
It's not old behavior if you are still doing it.
At first, I thought the God thing was a crutch. Turns out to be stilts.
If you turn it over and don't let go, you'll be wrong side up!
If you worry, don't pray. If you pray, don't worry.
I don't seem to use the Serenity Prayer much when everything's running
smoothly.
Half of my time I take care of my own stuff; the other half of my time
make sure that I am not taking care of your stuff.
Alcoholism is not a spectator sport.
Everybody around you gets to play,
I know that I have a resentment when I am involved in a heated argument
and I'm the only one in the car.
When God is going to do something wonderful, He begins with a
difficulty.
When He is going to do something very wonderful, He begins with an
impossibility.
Patience is when God makes "now" a little roomier.
Nowhere in the book will you find chapters entitled "Why it Works" or
"How it Feels."
When your knees knock, kneel on them.
Be patient with the faults of others; they have to be
patient with yours.