Don't be so humble, you're not that great.

Excessive drinking is the symptom of a deeper trouble as coughing is a symptom of tuberculosis. (AA booklet)

God is a comedian playing to an audience who's afraid to laugh. (Voltaire)

It takes a passion to conquer a passion.

Trust in Allah, but tie up your camel. (Old Arab Saying)

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

Life is a millstone - YOU decide if it's going to grind you down or polish you up.

Surrender means being willing to follow someone else's direction.

We surround ourselves with the image of ourselves. (Emerson)

What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not. (St. Augustine)

Be aware that tomorrow's resentments are fed by today's expectations. (Bill R.)

GOD ~ Good Orderly Direction.

No God - No Peace; Know God - Know Peace.

An optimist see opportunity in each calamity. A pessimist sees calamity in each opportunity.

Suffering because life cannot satisfy selfish desire is like suffering because a banana tree will not bear mangoes. (Buddha)

The sun can give heat and light to the whole world, but it can do nothing when the clouds are in the sky and shut out its rays. Similarly, so long as egoism is in the soul, God cannot shine upon the heart. (Ramakrishna)

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out? (Michel de Saint-Pierre)

A joy shared is twice the joy, a pain shared is half the pain.

Acceptance: What is ...IS; what isn't...ISN'T.

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

Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so. (Shakespeare)

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. (Abe Lincoln)

A goal is a dream with a deadline!

Rule 62...don't take yourself so God damned seriously. (AA Comes of Age)

Those who laugh - last.

God gave us two ears and one mouth. Listen twice as much as you talk.

Life is like an onion; you peel it one layer at a time; and sometimes you cry. (Carl Sandberg)

"All of Buddha's teachings can be expressed in two sentences. 'You must help others' and, 'If you can't help, you should not harm others.' " (The Dalai Lama)

Worry is just negative goal-setting.

All men are self-made, but only the successful will admit it.

"God has a plan for you...and what it is is none of your business." (A Buddhist Monk)

A God defined - is a God confined.

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die. (Malacky McCourt)

The Big Book is your road map, the meetings are your filling stations.

You can no longer deceive yourself as sincerely as you did before.

Learn to let go. That is the key to happiness. (Buddha)

Be here now! (Ram Dass)

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

We come to the program thinking we are at the end of the line, whereas we are just at the start of a journey. (Linda M)

Thou seest many stars at night in the sky, but findest them not when the sun rises. Canst thou say that there are no stars, then, in the heaven of the day? So, O man, because thou beholdest not the Almighty in the days of thy ignorance, say not that there is no God. (Ramakrishna)

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

Lead me from darkness to the light, lead me from ignorance, lead me from bondage to freedom, lead me from death to immortality. (Upanishads)

When we are new, we are used to short term gain for long term pain. As we grow, we gladly choose short term pain for long term gain. (David B.)

I know God won't give me anything I can't handle, I just wish He didn't trust me so much. (Mother Teresa)

The great curse of a cheat is not that no one trusts him but that he can trust no one. (Hugh D)

Although we are not responsible for our disease, we are responsible for our recovery. (NA)

If I don't take a drink for 364 days, 23 hours, 59 minutes, and 55 seconds I'm still just 5 seconds away from my next drunk! And each 24 hours that I don't take that drink, I am indeed somebody. (Wade)

I've got some good news and some bad news for you:
   The good news is that you're not in charge;
   The bad news is that you're not in charge.

Please, Lord, make me pure...but not yet. (St Augustine)

I've discovered a strange thing about people...they are going to be where they want to be. (Jack)

When you get sober you can write down all the gifts you get...when you go out you can reverse the pencil and erase each gift one by one.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit. (Proverbs 18:21)

If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are. (Zen proverb)

If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.

The problem with isolating is that you get such bad advice.

I'm here to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

SLIP ~ Sobriety Loses It's Priority.

If you don't take a 4th, you'll soon pick up a 5th.

Now I can wake up and say, "Good morning, God!" instead of "Good God, it's morning!"

A traveler am I and a navigator, and every day I discover a new region within my soul.(Kahlil Gibran)

People who don't go to meetings aren't there to see what happens to people who don't go to meetings.

I shall pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. (Stephen Grellet)

All the happiness there is in this world comes from thinking about others, and all the suffering comes from preoccupation with yourself. (Shantideva)

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not. (Mark Twain)

Whenever a relationship ends, I find it best to acknowledge and pray:
   Thank you God for bringing her/him into my life;
   Thank you God for taking her/him out of my life;
   Thank you God for that which is yet to come.

You are not dysfunctional, you just function differently. (Said by my daughter Kathy L)

We must substitute faith for fear, for fear is only inverted faith; it is faith in evil instead of good.

Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain. (Emerson)

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

There are two emotions: Love and Fear. The first is our natural inheritance, and the other our mind manufactures. (Course in Miracles)

FEAR: False Evidence Appearing Real.

FEAR: Fuck Everything And Run.

If you want to make ends meet .... GET OFF YOURS! (Dr Kenneth McFarland)

Let go or be dragged.

A strong belief in your sponsor is better than a weak belief in a Higher Power. (Clancy)

We may not have had the happiest childhoods, but we certainly have had the longest.

The less full of ourselves we are, the more room there is for others.

If you are not as close to God as you once were, who moved!

Procrastination is the gap between intention and action.

The secret to acceptance is not in getting what you want but in wanting what you get.

OK...get off the cross, we need the wood.

If nothing changes...nothing changes.

You cannot stumble when you are on your knees.

The best message carrier in history was Paul Riviere...He rode from town to town calling out "The British are coming, the British are coming" and not once did he get off his horse to help them pack.











































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Gratitude and acceptance are the answer to every question!  Let go, let the past be the past. 

The wise man has many cuts, the happy man doesn't count the scars.

In accepting and turning over my life and will to God - I also have to accept and turn over other's lives and wills to God.

Keep in the solution - NOT in the problem.

Living a good life is the greatest revenge.

"God has a plan for you...and what it is is none of your business." (A Buddhist Monk)

A God defined - is a God confined.

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die. (Malacky McCourt)

Remember the 2 men who fell off the pier - one drowned because he was struggling and fighting the water, the other floated into shore with life's support.

Do not worry about what others are doing - each of us should turn the searchlight inward and purify his heart as much as possible. (Gandhi)

surrender to win; give away to keep; we suffer to get well; and we die to live. (2nd edition Big Book Story)

we are each becoming whole again. When we come together, something magical happens - we become holy. (me)

An person comes apart spiritually, mentally and then physically. You put him back together again in the reverse order. You can put him back together physically in a comparatively short time. It takes a much longer time to put him back together mentally, and a much, much longer time to get him together spiritually. (Fr Hilary D.)

Hell: Complete separation from both man and God. (Ecclesiastical dictionary)

The measure of your anxiety is the measure of your distance from God. (Chuck C.)

The answer is not in the problem, the answer is in the answer. (Chuck C.)

Humility is a state of mind that comes from a realistic and relatively accurate knowledge of ones abilities and limitations. (dictionary)

To those who have made progress, humility amounts only to a clear recognition of what and who we really are, followed by a sincere attempt to become what we can be. (Bill W.)

The secret to acceptance is not in getting what you want but in wanting what you get.

OK...get off the cross, we need the wood.

Never forget that only through suffering did they find enough humility to enter the portals of that new world. How privileged we are to understand so well the divine paradox that strength rises from weakness; that humiliation goes before resurrection; that pain is not only the price but the very touchstone of spiritual rebirth. (Bill W.)

You cannot stumble when you are on your knees.

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

There are two emotions: Love and Fear. The first is our natural inheritance, and the other our mind manufactures. (Course in Miracles)

Don't get into a bad place through PIP:
Pride
Impatience
Projection

If God is for me, who can be against me.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Stick with the winners

Keep coming back

Just for today

I've been here a few 24 hours

HIT: Hang In There

Under every dress there's a slip

FEAR: False Expectations Appearing Real

Don't try to recruit people before they're ready --
they'll have you drinking before you'll get them sober

If you hang around a barber shop long enough, you'll get a haircut.
Poor me, poor me, pour me a drink.

Let go and let God

FEAR : Face Everything And Recover!

EGO: Edging God Out!

SLIP: Sobriety Losing Its Priority
KISS: Keep It Simple, Stupid
FEAR: False Expectations Appearing Real
FEAR: Face Everything And Recover
EGO: Easing God Out
HIT: Hang in there
GOD: Good, Orderly Direction
HALT: Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired

If you speak and act with pure thoughts - happiness follows you. (Buddha)

What's for you, won't go by you. (Grapevine)

HALT - Don't get too:
Hungry
Angry
Lonely
Tired

Coincidence is God's work - when He chooses to remain anonymous. (Charlotte S.)

God makes me strong. I see myself as I really am - strong. With God's help, I am not weak. I have what it takes. Thank you God for my strength.

When one door closes, another one opens. It's the dark hallways that scare us. (Roz A.)

Easy Does It.

One day at a time.

Do Daily:
Am I meditating and getting closer to God?
Am I eating and exercising correctly?
Am I keeping up on my obligations and commitments?
What am I doing for my pleasure?

Keep in the solution - NOT in the problem.

If there is pain, something is not free that should be free. (Dick M.)

Life is not painful, it's my resistance to life that causes me the pain. (Jean A.)

Do not worry about what others are doing - each of us should turn the searchlight inward and purify his heart as much as possible. (Gandhi)

No is a complete sentence. (Alanon)

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift---that's why it's called the present. (Jeanne JT)

Only God can fix what God has made. (Barbara P.)

I do God's work not God's job. (Clara S.)

Life is a millstone - YOU decide if it's going to grind you down or polish you up.

Acceptance: What is ...IS; what isn't...ISN'T.

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

Worry is just negative goal-setting.

All men are self-made, but only the successful will admit it.

Learn to let go. That is the key to happiness. (Buddha)

Be here now! (Ram Dass)

I've got some good news and some bad news for you:
   The good news is that you're not in charge;
   The bad news is that you're not in charge.

I've discovered a strange thing about people...they are going to be where they want to be. (Jack)

If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.

The problem with isolating is that you get such bad advice.

All the happiness there is in this world comes from thinking about others, and all the suffering comes from preoccupation with yourself.

Let go or be dragged.

We may not have had the happiest childhoods, but we certainly have had the longest.