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• If you are in the center of AA, you won't fall off the edge.
• Directions to AA: Just go straight to hell and make a U-turn.
• Move closer to AA and move closer to yourself.
• AA:It's Alcoholics Anonymo-us, not Anonymo-me

  sent in by Alan of Sacramento, CA

• AA: Being a part of something is more important than being the center of attention.
• AA is the only place whre you can walk into a room full of strangers and reminisce.
• AA: We are not God's gift to AA; AA is " " to us.
• A.A. Romance......The odds are good......but the goods are odd.

  sent in by Miles of Calgary , Alberta , Canada

• AA: Look for a way in, not for a way out.
• The AA paradoxes:
  ---from weakness(adversity) comes strength
  ---we forgive to be forgiven
  ---we give it away to keep it
  ---we suffer to get well
  ---we surrender to win
  ---we die to live
  ---from darkness comes light
  ---from dependence we found independence

  sent in by Macca of Scotland

• AA: We are not reformed drunks–but informed alcoholics.
• AA has no fixed address--you can take it with you.
• AA: We're here for a reason–not for the season.
• AA: You will never have to drink again, and will you will never be alone again.
• AA Groups: An AA group will be judged by the worst behavior of its members.

• AA Groups: When you clean up after your group, you leave the signature of AA behind you.
• AA Laws:
• THE LAW OF OVERSELL:
  When putting cheese in a mousetrap, always leave room for the mouse.
  THE LAW OF REALITY:
  Never get into fights with ugly people, they have nothing to lose.
  THE LAW OF SELF SACRIFICE:
  When you starve with a tiger, the tiger starves last.
  THE LAW OF DRUNKENESS:
  You can't fall off the floor.

  sent in by Chuck of Oliver, BC Canada

• ASAP: Always Say A Prayer
• Any two or three alcoholics gathered together in sobriety may call themselves an AA group.
• AA is a check-up from the neck up.

  sent in by Stephanie of Fairield, CT

• AA is like a shifting spanner...It can be adjusted to fit any nut. (from a copy of the Pathfinder, Queensland, Australia)

• A belly full of booze and a head full of AA don't mix.

  sent in by Chris of St. Petersburg, FL

• Before I came into AA I was dead, but I did not know enough to lie down.
• AA is not a sentence, it is a reprieve.

• A.A. is a self-help program but you can't do it by yourself.

• A.A. stands for Attitude Adjustment (or Altered Attitudes, Acknowledge Acceptance or Avoid Anger.)

• The AA waltz: steps 1, 2, 3

  sent in by Chris of St. Petersburg, FL

• AA won't keep you from going to hell nor is it a ticket to heaven but it will keep you sober long enough for you to make up your mind which way you want to go!

  sent in by Anna of Whethersfield, CT

• AA won't open the gates of heaven to let you in, but it will open the gates of hell to let you out.
• AA is a lifestyle, not a turnstyle.

  sent in by Nick H. of New York, NY

• We have everyone in AA, from Yale to jail.

  sent in by Chris of St. Petersburg, FL

• In AA, there are no losers--just slow winners.
• I have become a pupil of A.A. rather than the teacher I thought I was.
• Therefore our very first problem is to accept our present circumstances as they are, ourselves as we are, and the people about us as they are.
• Just accept, don't expect
• Therefore our very first problem is to accept our present circumstances as they are, ourselves as we are, and the people about us as they are.
• Acceptance is knowing the past will never get better.

• Acceptance: Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.

• Acceptance: Life is 10% what you make it and 90% how you take it.

Acceptance: Stop barking and start biting.

sent in by Rudolph D. of Paranaque City, Philippines

• Acceptance: They're just doing it, they're not doing it to you.

• Acceptance: Turn it over.

• Acceptance: You can't change the wind, but you can adjust the sails.
• It's easier to act your way into a new way of thinking than to think your way into a new way of acting.

  sent in Macca of Scotland

• A. C. T. I. O. N.: Any Change To Improve Our Nature.

  sent in by Janet L.

• Act As If.

  sent in by Janet L.

• Action alleviates anxiety.

• Action: Lazy works twice.

• Action: Utilize, don't analyze
• Action: You have to act right in order to feel right (not the other way around).

• Addiction: An alcoholic will steal your wallet. A drug addict will steal your wallet and help you look for it.
• Al-anon:I'm a Friend of Lois W.

  sent in by Janet L.

• Remember Al-Anons: The quicker, the sicker, the sooner, the better!!!

  sent in by Joanne A. of Joliet, IL

• Al-anon: Known in Ireland as the Provisional Wing of AA.

• Alcohol gave me the wings of an eagle, then it took away my sky.

  sent in by Andrea, Philadelphia, PA

• Alcohol is like virginity, once you've given it up, you wonder why you kept it as long as you did!

  sent in by Dave of Huntersville, NC

• Alcoholic (as defined by self): A piece of crap the universe revolves around.
• A person that is not an Alcoholic,doesn't lay awake at 4 am wondering if they are an Alcoholic.

  sent in by Macca of Scotland

• Alcoholic: Someone who refuses to give up a life of failure without a fight.
• Alcoholic: A person who, when s/he goes to a wedding, wants to be the bride; when s/he goes to a funeral, wants to be the corpse.
• Alcoholic: An alcoholic is someone who wants to be held while isolating.

• Alcoholic: I may not be much, but I'm all I think about.

• Alcoholic: I only drank on days beginning with "T"-Tuesdays, Thursdays, Today, Tomorrow…

• Alcoholic: If it looks like a duck, waddles like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it must be a…duck.

• Alcoholic: If I could drink like a normal drinker, I’d drink all the time!
• Alcoholic: If you drank enough to get to AA, you drank enough.

• Alcohol: It provokes the desire but takes away the performance.

• Only an alcoholic would believe that the solution to loneliness was isolation.
• Alcoholics burn their bridges in front of them.
• Alcohol: An alcoholic is someone who finds something that works and then stops doing it.
• Alcohol: It's not what or how much you drank, it's what it did to you.

• Alcohol: What you thought was the solution became the problem.

• Alcoholic: Terminal uniqueness!

• Alcoholic: They didn't make a glass big enough for me to have one drink.
• How come if alcohol kills millions of brain cells, it never killed the ones that made me want to drink?

  sent in by Macca of Scotland

• Alcohol: You will be rich when you know you have enough.

• Alcoholic drinking's three stages: impulsive, compulsive, repulsive.
• Each and every alcoholic---sober or not---teaches us some valuable lessons about ourselves and recovery.

  sent in by Macca of Scotland

• An alcoholic alone is slumming.

• Alcoholic: If I could drink like a normal drinker, I'd drink all the time!
• An alcoholic is not a guy who thinks he's had one too many. He's usually the guy who thinks he's had one too few.

• Being a "little bit alcoholic" is like being a "little bit pregnant."

• I would rather go through life sober thinking I'm an alcoholic than go through life drunk thinking I'm not.

• Every alcoholic's favorite brand: More!

• If you think you are an alcoholic, chances are, you are.
• Alcoholics heal from the outside in.........but feel from the insideout.

  sent in Macca of Scotland

• Alcoholic: A person who, when s/he goes to a wedding, wants to be the bride; when s/he goes to a funeral, wants to be the corpse.
• The destiny of every alcoholic is to be locked up, covered up or sobered up.
• An alcoholic is a man with two feet firmly planted in mid-air.
• The puppy, unlike the alcoholic, stops whining once they're allowed back in the house.

  sent in by Tom of Sacramento, CA

• You can carry the message, but not the alcoholic.
• Im allergic to alcohol--I break out in hand cuffs

  sent in by Tim H. of Auburn, NE

• You're probably an alcoholic if: You think spilling beer is alcohol abuse.

• Alcoholics are in a class by themselves. Everyone else has graduated.

  Michele D., AA Grapevine, March, 2001

• Alcoholics are life-long loners who cannot stand to be alone.
• Nonalcoholics change their behavior to meet their goals and alcoholics change their goals to meet their behavior.
• We alcoholics either go to Yale or jail

  sent in by Colleen of Elgin, IL

• Alcoholics burn their bridges before they get to them.

• Alcoholics aren't afraid to live. They're afraid to die.
• Alcoholism: Alcohol went from being my best friend to my worst enemy.
• Alcoholics really only have problems with three things: success, failure, and the obvious.
• Alcoholism: An alcoholic can be in the gutter, yet still look down on people.

• Alcoholism: Guilt of yesterday, fear of tomorrow, shame of today.

• Alcoholism: High bottoms have trap doors.

Alcoholism: If the cure works, chances are, you have the disease.

• Alcoholism: If you drank long enough to get to an A.A. meeting, you drank long enough.

• Alcoholism: Name it, Claim it, Tame it!!!

  sent in by Peggy of Baton Rouge, LA

• Alcoholism: Once you are a pickle, you can't be a cucumber. But once you are a pickle, you can be a newcomer.
• Alcoholism is an equal opportunity destroyer.

  sent in by Macca of Scotland

• Remember that alcoholism is ....incurable,progressive, and fatal.

  sent in Macca of Scotland

• Alcoholism: The three most dangerous words for an alcoholic-"I've been thinking"

• Alcoholism: We are not bad people becoming good, but sick people becoming well.

• Alcoholism: Your bottom just may be six feet under.

• Alcoholism: Your disease progresses even when you are not drinking.

• Active alcoholism is like an elevator; you can get off at any floor.

• Alcoholism doesn't come in bottles; it comes in people.

• Alcoholism is a self-diagnosed disease.

• Alcoholism is a physical compulsion coupled with a mental obsession.

  sent in by Chris of St. Petersburg, FL

• Some people think alcoholism is a two-fold disease--more and right now.

  sent in to the AA Grapevine by Duke D., attributed to Donna B.

• God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change

• the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

• It's not alcoholwasm; it's alcoholism.
• ALE: Alibis, Lies, Excuses-A killer before and after sobriety.

  sent in by Frank of Leighton, PA

• Anger: I can go from grateful to hateful in a second.
• Anger: The clenched fist never receives.
• Anger: If I don't "pause when agitated", I might use my "paws when agitated" (play the tape all the way through!).

  sent in by Joanne A. of Joliet, IL

• Anger is fear in a party dress.

  sent in by Raymond of New York

• If you meet anger with love, you render yourself invulnerable to attack.

  sent in by Lisa C. of Fredericton, NB

• Anger: We are only as big as the smallest thing that makes us angry.

• Anger is but a mask for fear.

• Justifiable anger is best left to those able to handle it.

• Those who anger you, conquer you.

• Don't get too Hungry, Angry, Lonely or Tired (H.A.L.T.)

• I don't say things to make you angry, I say things that make you angry.

  sent in by Stephen of Mesa, AZ

• Anonymity: The second A in AA is precious; it is the word in our name that sets us apart
  from all other alcoholics.

• Anonymity: Who you see here, what you hear here, let it stay here.

• A.S.A.P- Always Say A Prayer

  sent in by Donna

• A T T I T U D E   1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5=100%

  sent in by Anonymous of Buckner, MO

• Attitude: You can wake up and say "Good morning, God" or "Good God, it's morning!"

• Attitude: It is sometimes easier to give up the wine than it is to give up the whine.

  sent in by Miles of Calgary , Alberta , Canada

• Attitude: You get what you expect in life.

• Your Attitude almost always determines your Altitude in life.

  sent in by Jeff D. of Canada

• Attitude in life is everything!

  sent in by RAH of Leander, TX

• Keep an attitude of gratitude.
• To attract the right person, become the right person.