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Angell


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I've been accompanying someone on their 90 in 90 lately and every so often I've heard expressions that I haven't heard in a long time.  It's gotten me thinking and I've tried to go back in my memory and find some other long lost sayings from AA (okay, maybe they aren't lost but I haven't heard them for a while).  Please feel free to add to my list, I'd love to remember.

We tried to drown our fears but the little bastards learned to swim.

An alcoholic is someone who wants to be held while they isolate.

There's only one way to coast and that's downhill.

I no longer have a drinking problem, I have a living problem.

I'm the black sheep of my family but I came to AA and found the rest of my herd.

Anything an alcoholic lets go of has claw marks all over it.

Alcohol gave me wings - then took away the sky.

Resentments are like hemmoroids, they only affect the a__hole who has them.

Don't forget, the world record for sobriety is twenty-four hours.

Why me?  Why not me?

Alcoholics don't have relationships, they take hostages.

Isolation is the dark room I enter to create my negatives.

Behind every skirt is a slip.

It's not alcoholwasm, it's alcoholism.

 

 



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Those are some great sayings, Angell. Thanks for posting them.

I hadn't heard many of them. They're all good.

 



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I agree.. Some of these are new to me- I especially like the 'resentment' one lol, and the 'taking people hostage/relationship'- so true!!

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Great post Angell ... ... ... Here are a few more:

 

Utilize, don't analyze.

An AA member is just a drunk with a conscience.

Treat your mind like a bad neighborhood --- don't go there alone.

Ten out of ten people die, so don't take life too seriously.

Only three things happen to alcoholics who don't stop drinking:  They get screwed up, locked up, or covered up.

When tragic things begin to seem funny, health has begun.

You have to be willing to participate in your own recovery.

AA is a simple program for complicated people.

AA is not where you wind up, it's where you start over.

Alcoholics have three choices: die, go nuts, or get sober.

Alcoholics all drink for the same reason --- any reason.

Twelfth Step:   If they're ready, you can't say anything wrong.   If they're not, you can't say anything right.

Alcohol is patient; your disease will wait for you forever.

People don't come to AA because they're having a wonderful life.

When I turn myself over to God, I took my life out of the hands of an idiot.

 

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Well done Pappy! Great additions! Thank you!

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I got more Angell ... ... ... LOL



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There was a saying on a placard at the Newburg Group (a very old meeting in Cleveland) that I always liked and remembered and have never seen anywhere else in AA, it read:

'Let us watch well our beginings, the results will manage themselves"

I always liked:

"Resentment rots the container it's in"

"I'll show you, I'll hurt me"

"But for the grace of God,  there go I"

"I've lived through hundreds of catastrophes,  none of which have ever happened"

 

Below is a list from Moses Yoder the first Amish in AA from the Cleveland area:

BY THE GRACE OF GOD THE UNDESERVING REWARD

Time wasted getting even, can never be used in getting ahead.

Ulcers are something we get from mountain climbing over mole hills.

Lack of alcohol does not constitute sobriety.

Get in the middle of the bed; its the guy on the edge that always falls out.

AA cant be bottled.

AA meetings keep me stimulated.

God is my doctor, AA meetings are my medicine.

Learn to listen, and then listen to learn.

What you seek you will not find unless you share it.

Dont let the grammar of AA wear off.



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Great stuff everyone, thanks.



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A few more I dug up:


About AA --- I didn't like it, I didn't believe it, and it worked.

What you think you are, you are not; but what you think, you are.

God wasn't lost, I was.

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

There's no one too dumb for this program, but it's possible to be too smart.

You're ready for AA when you're not drinking for fun anymore.

Things won't get better because you joined AA, but you will.

The Bad News: When the suffering of the present exceeds the suffering of the past, then you will drink again.
The Good News: You don't have to suffer anymore.

How to stop drinking: Bend your knees instead of your elbows.


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-- Edited by Pythonpappy on Saturday 25th of August 2012 10:48:52 AM

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Lots of good ones posted here are a couple more

A simple program for complicated people

An alcoholic can think a piece of granite into talcum powder

Sober up a horse thief you still have a horse thief





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Try these on for size: ... ... ... ...


Before I joined AA, I was either thinking about drinking, drinking, or getting over drinking.

Consrtuctive criticism:   I tell you what is wrong with you.

Destructive criticism:   You tell me what is wrong wit me.

We're all here because we're not all here.

My mind is out to get me.

If you hang around long enough, someone will do the slipping for you.

As a sponsor, remember you can carry the world, but not the person.

I didn't get what I wanted from AA;  I got what I needed.

Not drinking is easy.   It's living and not drinking that's hard.

Come to ninety meetings in ninety days.   If you're not satisfied, we'll refund your misery.

Two realizations have contributed to my spiritual growth:     1)  There is a God.   2)   I ain't God.



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"Alcoholics all drink for the same reason --- any reason."

 

Ha. I remember in rehab they were working on triggers so that we could be aware of dangerous situations when we got back into the real world.

 

"What triggers you?" the asked me.

 

I scratched my head, thought deeply and then answered quite honestly: "Being awake". 

 

 

On the horse thief one: I've heard a similar one "If you take the alcohol out of a fruitcake then you've still got a fruitcake".



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ahahahahahhahahahhaaaaaaaaaa!!!! Being awake PERFECT!! LOL now that's honesty.

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"I've lived through hundreds of catastrophes,  none of which have ever happened"



Love this

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Having a resentment is like burning down your house to kill a mouse.

My problem is the ISM....I....Self....And Me.

Alcoholics are the only people that cure lonliness with isolation.

How much did my first drink cost me?....Everything I had....How much did my second drink cost me?....Three dollars and fifty cents.

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Frodo wrote:

 

"What triggers you?" the asked me.

 

I scratched my head, thought deeply and then answered quite honestly: "Being awake". 

 

 LMAO Frodo, ... ... ... Great response ... and also TRUE for me too ... ... ... 

 

 



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