Quotes from Meetings "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." "Forgivness 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 sometihng 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-degradeable." "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." "W.H.O.A.A. -- If you find you have a problem being willing, honest, open, accepting, and aware. {WHO{can help}AA}. It is time to Whoaa.......In Cowboy language that means Stop{the insanity}." "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..." "I'd rather live sober in AA wondering if I'm really an alcoholic, than die drunk trying to prove I'm not." "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 fatih 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, definately 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 everytime. I dressed the outside and I was nothing but a well dressed lie chased by the naked thruth 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." "Lifes life.Life aint half bad ,if you dont fight life." Al J. Died Sober "We addicts have a problem with commitment, consistency, and follow-through." "I know I'm allergic to alchohol '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 reaon, 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 pursuaded before came what to be 30-years of soberity 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 Higer 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 truely 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 becomings 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. Bob’s desk plaque "Those who piss us off the most are our greatest teachers." "Addictions are cunning, baffling, powerful and very, very patient!" "The world’s a tuxedo and I’m 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 unmanageability... it didn't work." "God's message to me is 'stay out of the way, but be ready!'"