If you want to quit drinking, you are going to have to quit drinking. -  Mary G.

I can't do His will my way. -  Mary G.

An alcoholic is a person who wants to be held while he's isolating. -  Mary G.

This is a 'One Day at a Time' program. If you are clean and sober today, you are tied for first place in AA. -  Mary G.

If drinking is interfering with your work, you're probably a heavy drinker. If work is interfering with your drinking, you're probably an alcoholic.  -  Mary G.

First we put down the anesthesia; then we operate.  -  Renee M.

I sum up Step 3 as "Fire myself, hire GOD".   -  Renee M.

Put down the food and pick up the program.  -  Renee M.

The longer a burden is carried, the heavier it gets - so TODAY  - I choose to live a life of serenity and not a life of regrets...

Boy - I'm going to give you a couple of minutes.... to try and imagine - how little I care, about what you think of me.  And how important this realization is going to be - to the rest of your sobriety.
2. Sobriety is not between you and me - It's between a  God of my understanding and me.  To thine own self be true.
3. Sharing God's gifts with you - feels good.  Possibly His little way of motivating me to continue to do it.
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Practice opposites to find peace of mind - Soldier Billy.  /  STINGO - Stop Think Inhale Now Go On - Soldier Billy.
WASP - Wait Absorb Slowly Proceed - Soldier Billy.  /  Trust in Allah but tie your camel to the post - Soldier Billy.
Think the same - React the same - Say the same - Expect the same - and you will feel the same - Soldier Billy.
Don't expect and you will not be disappointed - Soldier Billy.  /  Resentment makes resentment - Soldier Billy.
Drinking on a problem is like trying to put a fire out with petrol - Soldier Billy.
Resentment - The best cure is to ask yourself:  Have I ever done what I am resenting that person for? - Soldier Billy.
I have never met anyone who came into AA because the price of alcohol was raised - Soldier Billy.
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The very things that once destroyed me, have become the very foundations of who I am today in recovery.

I put down the food to get closer to GOD.  -  Renee M.

If God takes us to it, he will take us through it.

Prior to coming to AA, when I told my family I was not going to ever drink again.... my intentions were good.
But because of what they saw, it was difficult for them to hear what I was saying.

The task in front of you is never greater than the power behind you.  No human power could have relieved our alcoholism.  Remember, nothing is going to happen to you today that you and God cannot handle together. ODAAT

An alcoholic is a person who wants to be held while he's isolating.  - Pandora N.

Hit your knees... not the bottle!

Keep coming back... it works if you LIVE it!

Without Him, I can't.... without me, He won't!

The first thing you put in front of your sobriety is the second thing you'll lose.

One day at a time, is like building a house one brick at a time, if you don't take another drink until the day you die, you would have built a castle.

Then, I lived a life of Hell, Got Sober, Now I live A HELLUVA LIFE.

You can take the rum out of fruit cake, but you still have fruit cake!

The only thing more important than my recovery is my Recovery!!

"I'm sober today cause I ain't drank no liquor today."  Harold B. -  33 Years sober & counting...

When I take the "me" out of blame; all I have is bla, bla, bla...

Don't explain why you can't drink just say your allergic to alcohol and people leave you alone put to rest the debate...  I'm allergic to alcohol, I break out in felonies....

Relationship:  Really Exciting Love Affair Turns Into Outrageous Nightmare Sobriety Hangs In Peril
Carrie C.

You can never be Perfect BUT; you can ALWAYS be better! - Mike P.

There are no Big Deals in AA. ( Tom G. )
PS: Never limit your future by only doing what you have done in the past!

Joy isn't the absence of pain - it's the presence of God. ( Pandora )

I've only given up one drink.............the next one   (Kevin)

S. I. T.   STAY IN TODAY !!!   (Jan)

Today is the Tomorrow I worried about Yesterday  (Ken)

Resentment is like taking poison in an effort to kill your enemy!  (Cathy)

GOD always answers prayers.  He doesn't always say YES, He doesn't always say NO, sometimes he says YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING!?!    (Chris)

An Old Timer is one who doesn't drink and doesn't die!  (BJ)

Thank GOD I don't need a higher power.  (Ken)

Your mind is like a "bad neighborhood" - don't go there alone.  (Ashley)

Freedom is the journey of your dreams , floating on an endless sea of ideas. (Marsha)

Everybody makes mistakes. Fools repeat them, the weak excuse them, only the wise admit and profit from them.    (Suzy Q.)

Those who quit going to meetings aren't there to find out what happens to people who quit going to meetings.    (Stacey)

To enjoy freedom, we have to learn to control ourselves.

Insanity is not doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results; insanity is doing the same thing over and over again knowing full well what the results will be!  (Paul)

I asked for all things that I might enjoy Life, I was given Life that I might enjoy all things. (BJ)

Plant the seed of hope, it will grow in due time...for each of us the water of time is different..... (Janice)

I can be right or I can be happy!  (Pandora)

EGO " Easing GOD Out! "   (Adam B.)

Don't ask, "What is God's will for me?"  Ask instead, "Where are the instructions for the next step?  What do the instructions mean?"  And, "How do I do it?"  (Allen H.)

The only difference between God and me is that God doesn't think he is me....  (Judi)

Everything I put before my recovery, I will lose. (Mary S.)

You get sober not with your head, but with you feet- so keep you feet in the right place and you will stay sober.  (Buddy)

Blaming keeps you helpless! (Pandora)

The split toilet seat was invented by an alcoholic...when he used it he stopped cracking himself in the head.  (Allen H.)

Faith is not belief without proof; it's trust without reservation. (Sarah J.)

What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger! (Pandora)

People who don't know God's will for them are not in the habit of praying for it.  (Allen H.)

Don't just go to AA, join.  (Kenne A.)

If you hold on to your Sponsor with one hand and a Sponsee with the other, you can't pick up a drink !! (Al K. Holic )

Does Everybody Notice I'm  Always Lying?   =  DENIAL ....... (Chris C.)

When you are in a rut, STOP digging. (Ron C.)

If GOD can handle eternity, I can surely handle today! (Becky)

A self sponsored person is a good example of unskilled labor. (George B.)

It ain't OK til it's OK just the way it is...  (Tony H.)

A person should not measure success by material wealth  , but by , how high you are able to BOUNCE when you hit BOTTOM !  (David D.)

Sometimes we can have too many years and not enough days of sobriety (heard at a conference by Carole H).

The mightiest of warriors is he who conquers himself.  (Rick A.)

Things turn out the best for those who make the best of the way things turn out. (E.F.)

Poor me, poor me. Pour me another drink! (Marsha B.)

When I got here I needed to change my playgrounds, playthings and playmates !! (Al K. Holic)

If you're paining...you're gaining; if you're feeling...you're healing. (Moodydeb)

I sought my self, my self I could not see....I sought my GOD and he eluded me....I sought my fellows and found all three. (Levi )

Yesterday is a cancelled check...Tomorrow is a promissory note...Today is ready cash, spend it wisely!  ( Al K. Holic)

A "pat on the back" is a hug in passing... (Tony H.)

My biggest problem looks back at me in the mirror as I shave his face every morning. (Jim M.)

STAY A LITTLE LONGER - TRY A LITTLE HARDER (Bugsy)

It's OK to drink like a fish, as long as you drink what a fish drinks. (Jim M.)

Religion if for those afraid of going to hell.  A spiritual recovery if for those who have been there. ( from the Bend Group) (Mary H-S)

A meeting a day keep my demons (alcoholism) at bay. (Moodydeb)

Seven days without a meeting makes one WEAK.  (Dan)

If it feels good, do it...If it doesn't, fix it...If you can't fix it, forget it...If you can't forget it, file it away for future reference...But, for God's sake (and your own) DON'T DO IT AGAIN!.....(Gayle)

Alcoholism is the only disease I know where when the treatment fails we blame the patient. (The late Senator Harold E. Hughes)  

Love has no price.  It's only love if it's free. (Pandora)

Cunning, baffling, powerful: I can't outsmart it; I can't figure it out; and I sure can't whip it. (Mark W.)

S O B E R :  Son Of A Bitch Everything's Real. (Maria E.)

Stay out of your head , there's no adult supervision up there. (Eric H.)

"Do the thing and you will have the power." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

As the breeze blows so the grass shall bend

If I stop to think about how hard it is to change myself, then I know how hard it is to change other people.  (Pandora)

YOUR ALWAYS AN ASSHOLE TO SOMEONE (on giving too much value to how other people perceive you from T. A.)

One of my "isms" was "I sabotage myself".  (Moodydeb)

"Be realistic - plan for a miracle." - Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

Where ever you go there you are. (Harold D.)

Never say Never and Always stay away from Always" (Jim) 

You know your in trouble if you can relate to the show "COP'S" (Laura M.) 

"There are no coincidences... It's just God's way of remaining Anonymous" (David A.) 

" All my problems seem small, in retrospect ." (Mark P.) 

There is no pain in change the pain comes from the resistance to change. (Antonio E.) 

My sponsor told me to listen to people, that anyone (even people that I hate or have resentments towards) are right over half the time. (Bryan C.) 

The past is no indication of what I am. It's an indication of what I can become if I don't follow the program. (Timothy S.) 

You have to ask yourself - "What would an adult do in this situation?" (David A.) 

I knew I was getting a handle on sobriety, when I started having illusions of adequacy. (Sherry H.) 

"Each individual should consult his own conscience" BB pg. 132 . (Skedge) 

I've given up hope for having a better past. (Mike B.) 

Faith: Is daring the soul to go beyond what the eyes can see. (Debbie) 

When I don't ask for help, & I handle it myself, it's nothing more than a Drunk talking to a Madman. (Tim C.) 

When I am all alone in my head, I'm in a bad neighborhood! (Tim C.) 

The Truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off. (Cam M.) 

My sick mind cannot heal my sick mind. (Ron C.) 

If you're eating a s--t sandwich, it's because that's what you ordered. (Diane) 

In the beginning, there are only two things that you need to know about God.
#1. There IS a God. #2. You ain't it! (as told to Ken M. by Duane J.)  

While you're in a meeting doing sobriety, your disease is in the parking lot doing push-ups. (Morgan)  

You have a choice today you can either be right or be happy! (Buddy C.)  

When I am not working on my recovery, my disease is working on me! (Chris)  
If you've decided to stay dumb - you gotta be tough - it's rough out there! (Steve A.)  

Our Higher Power gives us many gifts in sobriety. We just have to remember to unwrap them. (Wendy B.)  

God made man in his own image, and man promptly returned the favor! ( Alethea A.)  

I've been beating up on myself so much I feel like hitting myself 

A critic is a person who goes onto the battlefield after the battle has been fought and shoots the survivors.

AA is not a program to get sober...it's a program to live your life successfully and to be happy once you get sober.

I'd never trade my worst day sober for my best day drunk.

Being an alcoholic does not give me the excuse to act alcoholically. 

I worked my using hard, so now I want to work my sobriety hard. 

The shortest sentence in the Big Book is, "It Works." 

The power behind me is greater than the problem in front of me. 

When you're in fear you're not in faith. (Roberta J.)

A fear faced is a fear erased.

Every time I draw a sober breath I'm like a fish out of water. 

I was a scream in search of a mouth. 

I didn't make it all the way to the beach to drown in the sand. 

Drinking gave me the illusion that I might be alive. (Chekhov, Uncle Vanya) 

I am one drink away from never being sober again for the rest of my life. 

Praying is asking God for help, meditating is listening for God's answer. 

The reason I'm here is because I'm not all there.

Put your chip under your tongue and if it dissolves you can take another drink.

My biggest problem was bottles of the two-legged variety

My basic problem is that I flee from those who want me and I pursue the rejectors. 

When I live in the past, I live in regret. When I live in the future, I live in fear. When I stay in the NOW, everything's always okay. (from Joan T.) 

If I could drink socially I'd get drunk every night. 

There's no speeding in the trudging zone.

Having a resentment is like drinking poison and expecting someone else to die. 

Courage is fear in action.

Had the eyes no tears, the soul would have no rainbow. (from Teresa) 

God will heal your broken heart, if you will give Him all the pieces. (from Teresa) 

My life hereafter is from this moment on. 

We are attracted to people who share in our growth and progress and lose interest in those who don't. 

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. (Ambrose Redmoon) 

Self will imprisoned me far more than bars ever did

I've definitely got the "ism" in alcoholism...that's incredibly short memory. 

I had to learn how to float in this program because I'm a sinker. 

On relapse: "I never did anything in moderation...except maybe the steps." 

Bring the body and the mind follows.

It's not the load that breaks you down...it's the way you carry it.

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil. (Max Lerner) 

If everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.

Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.  (Emerson)

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition. 

Seven days without a meeting makes one weak. (from Herb B.) 

Regarding hanging out at bars: "If you hang out at the barbershop long enough you're bound to get a haircut." (from Bill G.) 

On relapse: "I never did anything in moderation...especially the steps." 

Bring the body and the mind follows.

Tomorrow's a fantasy and yesterday's gone...there's only today.

Thank you, God, for the beautiful day I'm going to have if I can just get rid of my  attitude.

We're sick people trying to get better, not bad people trying to be good.

When you've got one foot in yesterday and the other in tomorrow, you can only piss on today. (from Steve and Anjanette) 

The only way to have gratitude is to live in the now, not in the past or the future. 

I didn't get my life back in this program...I got my life for the first time.

I never had a problem that was worse than the old solution I found for it. 

What other people think of you is none of your business. 

If it wasn't for denial my life would be shit.

Change only happens when the pain of holding on is greater than the fear of letting go. 

An expectation is a premeditated resentment.

I used to shoot up and throw up, now I suit up and show up. (David F.) 

If you can't love everybody today, at least try not to hurt anybody.

The reasonable person adapts to society. An unreasonable person adapts society. (Terry M.) 

Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to know one from the other. (Oliver J. Hart) 

If it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. (Mark Twain) 

My sobriety depends on who God is, not who I am. (Duane M.) 

You cannot save your ass and your face at the same time. (Dennis K.) 

Cash register honesty is easier than being honest with yourself, because at least you know the rules. (Ginger) 

Acceptance without gratitude is bullshit.

You're not responsible for your disease, but you are responsible for your behavior. 

If you don't want what we have, we will cheerfully refund your misery. 

Have a nice day unless you've made other plans.

If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.

Now that I'm sober I hit my knees in a different way than I used to. (Jay) 

Work to become, not to acquire. (Elbert Hubbard) 

Regarding believing in God: "Pretend. Act as if. Fake it until you make it.

Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. (David Lloyd George) 

On the hopelessness of addiction from somebody who is still using: "I used to think there was light at the end of the tunnel, but for me today the light is on a locomotive headed right for me."

The value of the average conversation could be enormously improved by the constant use of four simple words: "I do not know." (Andre Maurois) 

Living our pre-AA active daily lifestyle was akin to switching seats on the Titanic. 

You can't direct the wind, but you can adjust your sails. 

Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible. (Robert Schuller) 

If triangles had a God, he would have 3 sides. (Montesquieu) 

Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. (Yiddish proverb) 

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. (Robert Schuller) 

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. (Albert Camus) 

Behaviorism is the art of pulling habits out of rats. (O'Neill) 

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own. (Disraeli) 

The worst of all deceptions is self-deception. (Plato) 

Whenever you fall, pick something up. (Oswald Avery) 

If you continually give you will continually have. 

He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds. (Emerson) 

It is easier to get forgiveness than permission. (Cecile Stewart) 

Fear knocked on my door...I opened it and there was nobody there. 

Be careful what you pray for, you just might get it.

The most important word in the Steps is the first one... "WE" 

The world ain't gonna kiss my butt just because I'm getting sober 

My mind is out to get me. 

A recovering alcoholic without a sponsor is much like leaving Dracula in charge of the blood bank.

Relapse starts long before the drink is drunk. 

First the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man. 

The secret to long term sobriety: Don't drink, don't die. 

If from the skies fall lemons, make lemonade. (Gabriel G.) 

Don't let the limits of your imagination block you from what God can do for you. (Suzanne) 

Angels fly because they take themselves so lightly.

I have a very high pain threshold and a very low fear threshold. 

I always look for the hardest way to do the easiest thing. (Jay M.) 

If you don't grow, you go. 

If you don't hear what you need to hear, say what you need to hear. 

We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time..." (T. S. Elliot) 

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory. (Betty Smith) 

Nothing contributes more to peace of soul than having no opinion at all. 
(George Christopher Lichtenberg)  

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. (Helen Keller) 

Fear is a darkroom for developing negatives.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate. (Elbert Hubbard) 

A smooth sea never made a skillful sailor. 

When you starve with a tiger, the tiger starves last. (Griffin's Thought) 

While I'm in a meeting, my disease is out in the parking lot doing push-ups. (Mike M.) 

When I moved in sobriety, I went to the meetings and thought, 'Oh, you do things differently here...i.e., wrong. (Mike M.) 

Laziness is no more than the habit of resting before you get tired. (Jules Renard) 

Democracy is where you can say what you think even if you don't think. 

You can't think your way into a new way of living...you have to live your way into a new way of thinking!

Democracy is where you can say what you think even if you don't think.

A day without sunshine is like night.

He who dies with the most toys, is, nonetheless, still dead. 

ON HUMILITY: "To err is human, to moo bovine." 

ON PROPHECY: "The meek shall inherit the earth -- they are too weak to refuse." 

People that don't go to meetings, don't hear about what happens to people that don't go to meetings (Phil A.) 

You can't think your way into right living...you have to live your way into right thinking. (Pat H.) 

If you're not enjoying this program, maybe you're not working it right. (Pat H.) 

If you find working the steps too hard, try living them instead...that's where the real joy in the program lies. (Pat H.) 

If you wanna make God laugh, tell him YOUR plans for the day. (Bob B.) 

United we stand; divided we stagger.

He who foresees calamities suffers them twice over.

He who no's others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

There is an easy answer to your problem that is neat, plausible, and wrong. 

Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation. 

Nervousness is just God trying to shake the truth out of you. 

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough. 

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. 

Our defects of character are the bars of a cage. The central point is not to study the bars, but to get out of the cage. 

Recovery is a journey between two stations. One station represents total chaos, and the other represents total serenity. What is important is not where you are, but what direction you are facing.

Life without recovery: Even roses have thorns. Life in recovery: Even thorns have roses. 

If you do not know where you are going, then any road will take you there. (David L.) 

The slogans work much better for me when I decorate my life with them rather than decorating the walls with them. (Jenn K.) 

The most natural state of an alcoholic is irritable, restless, and discontented. 

We are human BEings, not human DOings.

Recognizing someone else's human dignity cannot cost you your own. 

I'd rather have a frontal lobotomy than a bottle in front of me.

If you don't want what we have, your misery can be refunded. 

Funny...I ruined my health by drinking to other's! 

Don't Entertain The Thought. 

Progress Not Perfection.

The chains of alcohol are too light to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

I didn't get into trouble every time I drank, but every time I got into trouble I was drinking. 

Happiness is not a place you arrive at, it is a way you travel.

Is it not better to aim your spear at the moon and strike only an eagle, than to aim your spear at the eagle, and strike only a rock?

If your ass falls off, put it in a paper bag and take it to a meeting.

If my brain didn't need me for transportation, it would have killed me a long time ago! 

If you're not a lion tamer, don't go into the lion's den.

You can't speed up your recovery, but you sure can slow it down. 

If I don't let go, I lose my grip.

If God is your co-pilot, SWITCH SEATS!

It's 11:00, do you know where your brain is? 

Talk does not cook rice.

New York Steps 1, 2, and 3: "I can't, He can, so let Him!

If you always do what you always did, you'll always get what you always got. 

We'll love you until you learn to love yourself. 

Don't give up before the miracle happens.

Unless I accept my virtues, I will be overwhelmed with my faults. 

Pray daily, God is easier to talk to than most people.

Willpower tells me I must, but willingness tells me I can. 

Emotions aren't facts.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less. 

If GOD drives you out, BOOZE will bring you back. 

You can't think your way into a new way of living...you have to live your way into a new way of thinking!

No God, no peace...Know God, know peace.

It's not the yets we have to worry about, it's the again's. 

Rejection is God's protection. 

INTIMACY = In-to-me-I-see 

ME + U is a power greater than ME. U + US is a power greater than U. 

Winners do what they have to do and losers do what they want to do. 
It is easier to stay sober than to get sober. 

You never get your teeth so white that you never have to brush them again. 

If you like everyone in Alcoholics Anonymous, you're not going to enough meetings. (Texas antidote to a pink cloud) 

Don't try to clear away the wreckage of the future. 

The same person will drink. (Alesia)

Not drinking is a symptom of my recovery.

The only meeting you're ever late for is your first AA meeting. 

I'm not much, but I'm all I think about.

Those who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers. 

Meeting makers make it.

They told me that giving was living, and living was loving, and loving was God 

You can go nowhere from where you are not.

Courage is fear that has said a prayer.

If you don't care where you are, then you ain't lost.

You can't carry a board 360 feet long, but you can carry a one foot board a day at a time. 

Life isn't fair, life isn't just, life is just what it is.

If you're not in the market for a bicycle don't hang around in a bicycle shop. 

Why me? Why not me?

There are no single truths, there are only simple truths.

Quality Sobriety...I used to let others tell me about mine. Today I know it for myself.

Sober is being comfortable with myself out of control. When I am in control, I am not sober. 

God won't give me more today than I can handle, but He didn't count on me piling on yesterday and tomorrow.

I thought that I was The Captain of my Fate, and the Master of my Soul. What I found out was that when I was drinking I was a menace to Navigation.

The insanity of this disease is that I kept getting drunk. Then I'd be drunk and insane.

Since it is One Day At A Time, then whoever awoke the earliest today has the most sobriety. 

I thought Easy Does It was counting to ten before hitting someone. 

I was a Periodic Drinker. I drank, period. 

Misery is optional.

Getting sober by any means possible must include love.

There are things more painful than the truth, but I can't think of any.

I finally got into recovery when the unknown became more acceptable than the known 

When I look into a mirror, I take a good look, because this is the guy that got me here. 

AA won't solve my problems, It will help keep me sober to work on them. 

If I drink, there are three doors to choose from; bad, worse and terrible. 

The man I was will always drink. I need to change.

People didn't recruit me for this program, alcohol did; and it did a good job. 

I had alcoholic amnesia. I forgot everything but my enemies.

When I am being here now, I don't have to cover up anything. 

If you don't like the Program, we will refund your misery.

When the Program doesn't work, am I still negotiating the terms of my surrender. 

If your life worked so well, what are you doing here now? 

My drug of choice was actually a drug of No Choice. 

Life is too short to be small.

Whatever you do may be very insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. 

I have the problem of trying to understand my insides by means of thinking without experience 

Believe only half of what you hear. And after you have been around awhile, you will know which half.

This is a Positive Program for Negative people.

Most alcoholics are great talkers. But the Program is about ACTION. 

Failure isn't in falling down, it's in failing to get back up. 

I am not interested in the truth, I leave that to God and my sponsor. I'm only interested in the momentary facts of things.

My sponsor taught me that I am not the con man. I am the mark.

We need trust to combat fear.

A Captain of a ship needs a crew. Accept the help of others.

The healthy person finds happiness in helping others. Thus, for him unselfishness is selfish.

We don't have something until we have built up enough to be able to give some away. 

Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent. 

Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you didn't have a sponsor or worked the Steps. But I repeat myself.

I must remember that the power within me far exceeds the fear in front of me. 

The trouble with many recovering people is that they are bigger pain the second time around." 

"It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis.

Most alcoholics would rather die than learn about themselves. In fact they do. 

A person who doesn't work The Steps has no advantage over the person who can't work them.

It was natural for me to drink-just like birds swim and fish fly, I drank. 

As an alcoholic it was natural for me to talk out of both sides of my mouth at the same time-and to lie out of the other side. 

I don't yet know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. 

Responsibility - I didn't want it. It was thrust upon me by birth. 

When nothing in my world seems to measure up, there is something wrong with the yardstick. 

Acceptance is realizing that one of the things I cannot change is the truth of the Serenity Prayer.

Serenity is not the absence of disturbance, it is being okay with that disturbance. 

We are here to confront ourselves through the eyes and hearts of others.

Do I believe that I can give out one kind of behavior and yet receive another? 

If you can't get what you want, learn to want what you get.

Remember yourself as the whole person you are and accept yourself as you are. 

Rust never sleeps. Will I accept that or will I resent it?

Serenity isn't freedom from the storm; it is peace within the storm. 

Some things have to be believed to be seen. 

An alcoholic was someone I didn't like because he drank as much as I did. 

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

A little kid will take your hand and enjoy whatever happens. How did I get from being that little kid to believing that I was the Chairman of the Universe?

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want 

A loss in life is not a loss of life.  It doesn't hurt to try.

Alcoholism is learned inadequate responses to life's problems. 

What are you doing suffering someone else's pain? 

My whole being is denial and addiction. What would happen if I took all that energy and aimed at sobriety?

The Program is a tool box; it is up to me to take the tools out and use them." 

If you think life's lessons are hard, try addiction.

Letting go is always taught at meetings. Look at all the idiotic behavior we encounter.

You either face the issue or you face destruction. 

A Prayer: "Thank you God for all you have given me, for all you have taken away from me, and for all you have left me.

With my self-image I had little going for me, plus some less. 

You have the right to act in ways that promote your dignity and self-respect as long as the rights of others are not being violated in the process.

The two hardest things in life to handle are success and failure. 

I wanted to be proud of myself, the problem is that I chose drinking as the subject of my pride.

Changing your dress or your name you can do easily. But changing who you are will take a lot of work.

Sometimes recovering people must do twice as much as others to be thought of as half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.

The Program has helped me to build a record of sobriety; but a record isn't something you stand on, it is something you grow on.

Live your life in your heart, fill it with love, not hate.

I've learned not to pay attention to the foolish actions of others. 

Worry is interest on fear.

When I was drinking, I was lost in the four C's: Compare, Criticize, Compete and Condemn. 

My friends were all victims - it makes me wonder how that could happen by accident.

The wind does not wait for the tree to bend.

Time is natures way of keeping everything from happening at once.

Most people lie when the truth is too tough. At sometime it will have to come out.

A cockroach doesn't turn into a butterfly. A complete change of nature is necessary. 

The main value of Iying has yet to be discovered. 

God is closer to me than I am to myself.

You need to be honest with God, because this is one heck of a disease and you'll need Him. Who did I think I was wanting control? It was the very thing that got me here. 

One way to lose your soul is to only worship a God outside of yourself. 

If you truly do a Third Step and turn your will over to the care of God, take a Tenth Step each day to see how He's doing.

Trust is belief that my decisions will work. Faith is belief that the results will be beneficial. 
Real communion with God is communion with your fellow beings.

God won't give me more today than I can handle. His list fits me, my list is as big as my ego. I'm not a drunk. I'm just naturally obnoxious, dishonest, and irresponsible.

What kind of world would it be if it depended on my beliefs? But then I have it backwards 

Love is wishing the other person well, and being willing to help them achieve it 

In a relationship there is me and her and God; I have my plans for us; God has his. Guess who will win?

God speaks through people, I used to worry about which ones.

There are two movements in this program; one toward sobriety, and a second away from it. 

Alcohol is a solvent; it will remove everything from your life. 

Has helping another person ever been your number one priority? Have you ever wanted to help someone achieve with everything you had? Choosing to set yourself aside is genuine care and love.

One may pretend to love, but one cannot pretend genuine care. 

No person with whom we are enamored of will be able to give us the full love we seek. Only mindless morons and pets do that.

Minds are like parachutes they must be open to work. 

The ABSOLUTES: "Almost always, if I measure my decision carefully by the yardsticks of absolute honesty, absolute unselfishness, absolute purity, and absolute love, and it checks up pretty well with those four, then my answer can't be very far out of the way." (Dr. Bob and the Good Oldtimers:54) 

When you know that you don't know, then you know!

Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you  have. (Burt B) 

Don't count the days, make the days count.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failures. (Edward Eggleston) 

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate." (Elbert Hubbard) 

Act "as if..." (New York) 

Pray daily, God is easier to talk to than most people. 

Willpower tells me I must, but willingness tells me I can. 

Emotions aren't facts. 

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less. 

If GOD drives you out, BOOZE will bring you back. 

You can't think your way into a new way of living...you have to live your way into a new way of thinking!

Laziness is no more than the habit of resting before you get tired. (Jules Renard) 

It is not length of life, but depth of life. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 

Two step formula for handling stress: 1. Don't sweat the small stuff. 2. Remember that it's all small stuff. (Anthony Robbins) 

The world is made for people who aren't cursed with self-awareness.
        (the character Annie Savoy in the film Bull Durham) 

Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. (American Indian Proverb) 

When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail. (Abraham Maslow) 

Deja Fu: The feeling that somehow, somewhere, you've been kicked in the head like this before.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you. (Andre Gide) 

If you truly want to understand something, try to change it. (Kurt Lewin) 

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. (Winston Churchill) 

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. (Antoine de Saint-Exup'ery)

Belief without action is the ruin of the soul. (Edward Abbey) 

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. (Marcel Proust) 

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength. (Ralph Sockman) 

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. (Thomas Szasz) 

To gain that worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. (Bernadette Devlin) 

Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong. (Dandemis) 

The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything - and it works.  (William Strong) 

May you live all the days of your life. (Jonathan Swift) 

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. (George Bernard Shaw) 

Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They're a different breed of dog.  (Josh Billings) 

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. (Lord Chesterfield) 

Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging. (Duke Snider) 

If you judge, investigate. (Seneca) 

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.  (Mark Twain) 

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. (Samuel Butler) 

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.              (Robert M. Pirsig) 

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness. (Seneca) 

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. (Leo Tolstoy) 

The Road to recovery is ALWAYS under Construction. (Geoff P.) 

Alone I am nothing, but together God and I make a majority! (St. Theresa) 

The impossible is often the untried. (Jim Goodwin) 

A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key. (Paul Valery) 

If you are having trouble keeping your head above water, you probably aren't on your toes. (Liguorian) 

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.   (Dennis Wholey) 

One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in. (Wayne Gretzky) 

Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress. (Thomas A. Edison) 

Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be.  (Abraham Lincoln)

K.I.S.S.= KEEP IT SIMPLE, SURRENDER.  ( Shanti )

SLIP=Sobriety Loses It's Priority  (Bob & Kim)

GOD=Group of Drunks   (Bob & Kim)

Live and let your life live with you !!!!!   (Lisa)

When I don't feel like going to a meeting is when i need it the most.   (Bernie)

If you worry about what might be and wonder what might have been, you will miss what is

I am still not everything I want to be....but thank God I am not what I use to be!! (Johnna C.) 

If you are willing you will awake! And if you are awake you will recognize the power of spirit in your life and surrender to it's truth ...One Day At A Time.   (Ray)

I am not happy that I am an alcoholic, BUT I am happy to know that I am one.  (Cameron)

It's not the size of the dog in the fight---It's the size of the fight in the dog! (John)

You've put your life into the program, and the program in to your life.  (Dave)

If you don't get right; you will get left-ed !!!!!!!  (Tim)

At times love brings frustrations, but there's nothing more precious than true love.   (Joo)

Strength is a matter of a made up mind.   (Frances)

Always tell the truth and you won't have so much to   remember...EDI!!!!

Breath in God, Blow out stress.  (Kathy)

No matter where you go...there you are!  (Muriel)

Shit doesn't just happen.  Usually there's an asshole involved, and usually that asshole is me! (Travelin' Bill on Step 4)

If God were small enough to be understood, He wouldn't be big enough to be God.  (Fran)

When you know you don't know, then you Know. (the late Jim W.)

If I do everything I can possibly do to take care of MYSELF, everything else will fall into place!  (Try it).... (Pandora)

The pain caused by getting sober is preferable to the pain of staying stuck. (Steve G.)

The highest rank in AA is sober.  (Kenne A.)

I'm having an eviction party in my head---no renters allowed!   (Terri)

Religion is for those who are afraid to go to hell, spirituality is for those who have already been there.  (Fred)

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. (Nelson Mandela - A Long Walk to Freedom) 

Conscience is the inner voice warning us that someone may be looking. 
(H.L. Mencken) 

God respects us when we work and loves us when we sing. 

Inch by inch it's a cinch; yard by yard it's hard. (Alesia) 

While I'm waiting for my ship to come in I'll probably be at the airport (Alesia) 

Yesterday is history, Tomorrow is a mystery, Today is a gift from God - That's why it's called the present. (Alesia) 

If you're coasting, you're going downhill. (Alesia) 

Pray as if it's all up to God, work as if it's all up to you. (Alesia) 

AA may not open the gates of heaven and let me in, but it sure opened the gates of hell and let me out. (Alesia) 

Religion is man-made, god isn't. (Alesia) 

The same person will drink. (Alesia) 

Not drinking is a symptom of my recovery.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. (Robert L. Stevenson) 

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however. (Richard Bach) 

The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone. (Stella, Lady Reading) 

The only meeting you're ever late for is your first AA meeting. 

I'm not much, but I'm all I think about.

Those who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers. 

There never was night that had no morn. (Dinah Mulock Craik) 

Meeting makers make it.

They told me that giving was living, and living was loving, and loving was God 

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction. (John F. Kennedy) 

You can go nowhere from where you are not.

Life acquires meaning when we face the conflict between our desires and reality.  (Deng Ming-Dao) 

Courage is fear that has said a prayer.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. (Thoreau) 

If you don't care where you are, then you ain't lost.

Time spent laughing is time spent with the gods. (Japanese proverb) 

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. (Eden Phillpotts) 

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. (William Saroyan) 

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional (Cheryl S.)

To oppose something is to maintain it. (Ursula K. LeGuin) 

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings. (Alice Miller) 

This is the final test of the gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him. (William Lyon Phelps) 

The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one.  (Elbert Hubbard) 

Happiness depends, as Nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. (William Cowper) 

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage "coaches" ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory. (Herbert Kaufman) 

He who is outside the door has already a good part of his journey behind him. (Dutch Proverb) 

Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing. (William Feather) 

We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns. (Orison S. Marden) 

Life acquires meaning when we face the conflict between our desires and reality. (Deng Ming-Dao) 

This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. (Shakespeare) 

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live. (Lin Yutang) 

You must allow people to be right, because it consoles them for not being anything else. (Andre' Gide) 

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. (John Ruskin) 

First say to yourself what you would be, then do what you have to do. ( Epictetus ) 

We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are. (Talmudic Saying) 

When nothing is sure, everything is possible. (Margaret Drabble) 

Kindness is within our power, even when fondness is not. (Samuel Johnson) 

The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through (Harry A. Overstreet) 

On COMMITMENT: "Strength is a matter of the made-up mind." (John Beecher) 

On CHANGE: "After you've done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully.  After five years, look at it with suspicion.  And after ten years, throw it away and start all over." ( Alfred Edward Perlman )

When you're home by yourself you're behind enemy lines.

If you share your pain you cut it in half, if you don't you double it. 

If you don't want what we have, go back out to what you had. 

There's no elevator, you have to take the steps. (Fairmont, MN club house sign)

AA is not for people who need it, it's for people who want it.

Part of compliance is defiance, but you must arrive at acceptance of the disease. 

I'm an egomaniac with an inferiority complex. (Bourroghs C.)

My head is like a bad neighborhood and I shouldn't go in there alone. 

Religion is for people who are afraid they'll go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have been there."

"I'm not going to give anybody free rent in my head." 

I was hopelessly dopeful...now I'm dopelessly hopeful.

I used to be a hopeless dope fiend, now I'm a dopeless hope fiend.

I need to put things in perspective because I have a disease of perception. 

An alcoholic is chosen to find God.

The quality of your recovery is proportional to the quality of your surrender. 

I'm a W. C. S. person. That's Worst Case Scenario.

I'm basically a negative person, that's why I'm so happy.

Untreated alcoholism without the steps on a daily basis will make my past my future. 

Uncover...Discover...Discard.

Those who relapse are attending powerlessness graduate school. 

This program changes the way I relate to me. That's what I'm trying to do, change the way I relate to me.

If you commit suicide you're killing the wrong person.

"Begin with the possible; begin with one step.   There is always a limit, you cannot do more than you can.  If you try to do too much, you will do nothing."  --  P.D. Ouspensky & G. I. Gurdjieff

Yesterday's history & tomorrow's a mystery.  All we have is today...that's why it's called "The Present"  (Moodydeb)

When I stop living in the problem and live in the answer the problem goes away.  (Harold D.)

"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding." - Kahlil Gibran

Recovery is like riding on an elevator you can't stand still. (Harold D.)

Sarcasm means to "tear flesh" in Greek!    (Pandora)

"Before enlightenment, chopping wood, carrying water.  After enlightenment, chopping wood, carrying water."  Zen Proverb

Only the disciplined are free. (Harold D.)

The difference between a flower and a weed is a judgment. (Gayle H.)

Acceptance is a blissful state from which all things  can change for the better.  (Pandora)

One drink, one drunk. (Harold D.)

"Come to the edge, he said.  They said   We are afraid.  Come to the edge, he said.  They came.  He pushed them...and they flew." -- Guillaume Apollinaire

It's not what you have, It's what you do with what you have. (Kathy C.) 

If you can't do anything about it you know its God's will....G. Durgin (JAMES H.) 

Into each life some rain must fall, but an optimist always expects a rainbow! (Pandora)

Don't drink even if your ass falls off, if it does we will give you a bucket and you can carry it to the meeting with you. (Rob S.) 

I KNOW I GOT ANOTHER DRUNK IN ME....BUT I ALSO KNOW I DON'T HAVE ANOTHER RECOVERY (John C.)  

Choice not chance determines destiny. (Jude C.)  

You people in A.A. taught me to give up what I couldn't afford to keep, to keep what I couldn't afford to lose. . (Pete H.)

If life was easy, everybody would be doing it.. (Don W.)

If you want to change some things in your life ..... You've gotta change something in your life. (Lynn N.)

You are NOT sensitive...You are an immature S.O.B. (Keith V as told to him early in sobriety) . 

Here's an old Spanish Proverb: First drink, with water; Second drink, without water; Third drink, like water.( Jeff K. Iowa ). 

Wow, you're really on a pink cloud. Don't worry, hon, this too shall pass. 

Recovery has taught me that "Today I have a choice" I never knew that while using. (Ruben S.)  

If you're not a lion tamer, don't go into the lion's den. 

I treat my head like a bad neighborhood: I don't go in there alone. 

In life, pain is necessary; suffering is optional.. (Don W.)

God don't make no junk. (Floyde C.)

You can't speed up your recovery, but you sure can slow it down. 

You can't save your face and your ass at the same time. 

If I don't let go, I lose my grip. 

If God is your co-pilot, SWITCH SEATS! 

Keep It Simple Stupid! (Adam B.) 

If you keep one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, you're just pissing all over today. 

It's 11:00, do you know where your brain is? 

I thought I was the way I was because I drank. But I found out, I drank because of the way I was. ( Pete H ) 

Talk does not cook rice. 

Chicago Serenity Prayer: "F--k it, it ain't worth it!" (not to be applied to the steps, of course) 

New York Steps 1, 2, and 3: "I can't, He can, so let Him!" 

If you always do what you always did, you'll always get what you always got. 

We'll love you until you learn to love yourself. (Duane J.)

Don't give up before the miracle happens. (Ken M.)

You never have to drink again. 

If you don't have a Higher Power, borrow mine. (Kenne S.)

Progress, not perfection. 

Unless I accept my virtues, I will be overwhelmed with my faults. 

We are not human beings sharing a spiritual journey, but spiritual beings sharing a human journey. 

Let God save your soul...we're here to save your ass! 

Take the fifth or drink a fifth. 

Getting there isn't half the fun, it's *all* the fun because there is never there. 

Practice makes progress. 

Emotions destroy intelligence. 

Sometimes you have to get on your knees to rise. 

Fear is faith turned inside-out. (Roberta J.)

Resentment is a poison I take to hurt you. 

Step over the bodies if you have to 

Fake it 'til you make it (Midwestern) 

If you're not moving away from a drink you're moving closer to it 

"The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.  Neither need you do anything but be yourself."  -- Lao - Tse

I suffered from alcoholism in sobriety when the "ism" stood for, "I Sponsor Myself". (Wirt) 

I found hope in these rooms, myself in the steps, and God inside my heart. (John W.) 

The first step adds years to my life, the rest add life to my years. (Renee B.) 

For every success, there's a thousand fathers and every failure's a bastard. (Kenny B.) 

Everything after "but" is bullshit. You are not responsible for your next thought, only for your next action. (Noreen B.) 

Yea, I have an allergy to alcohol.  Every time I drink, I break out into handcuffs. (Wirt) 

God puts assholes in our lives that we may recognize our own potential. (John A.) 

WWJD-In times of need just think WWJD - What Would Jesus Do!. (Hank S.) 

Only through selflessly giving of ourselves to helping other's does one find true spiritual awakening!! (Jim C.) 

A pencil, paper and a Big Book can straighten out a whole nest of mind snakes.. (Tom Mc C.) 

The Program of Alcoholics Anonymous is about learning to live comfortably in a world of unresolved problems. (as told to me by my spiritual advisor) (Kat M.) 

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup." H. L. Mencken (David B.) 

One thing about sobriety, if you don't drink, it lasts a lonnnnng time! (Levi N.) 

I'd rather have a frontal lobotomy, than a bottle in front of me!. (Levi N.) 

Ain't  it great! (Joanne) 

Life ... It's no Better or Worse , Than you chose to make it.  (David D.) 

If  you get kicked in the pants, at least your still in front !! (Don K.)  

Depression is Anger without the enthusiasm. (Renay B.) 

Comparison of religion and spirituality...Religion is man talking to man about God. Spirituality is God and Man talking. (Paul F.) 

Don't drive faster than your guardian angel can fly. (Randy B.) 

AA is a program of Hope for the Hopeless and Help for the Helpless (dano-Houston) 

There are no chemical solutions to spiritual problems (Ron K.) 

"The reason I go to meetings, is to see what happens to people who don't go to meetings." (Levi N.) 

You can close a chapter, but the end of the story remains eternally unwritten. (Steve B.) 

You don't have to use even if your ass falls off, and if your ass does fall off we'll teach you a new way to sit. (Rachael ) 

"Live, laugh we are free". (Rachael) 

Insanity is the same person Asking the question, Answering the question,& Acting on it. (Tim C.) 

It's easier to put on slippers than to try to carpet the world 

Take your time...God doesn't wear no Rolex. 

If your ass falls off, put it in a paper bag and take it to a meeting. 

You're right where you're supposed to be (when used to the insane and the outraged). 

If my brain didn't need me for transportation, it would have killed me a long time ago! 

My anxiety is in my indecision.

Whatever you put before your sobriety; you shall surely lose. 

Why put off today, what you can put off tomorrow. 

He who fails to plan, plans to fail.

Anything worth doing well, is well worth overdoing. 

Nothing changes if nothing changes.

Attitudes are contagious. Is yours worth catching?

The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.

Reputation: what others are not thinking about you.

It's not a matter of where you stand but in what direction you're headed.

He who foresees calamities suffers them twice over.

I'm not much, but I'm all I think about.

Don't let the urgent get in the way of the important.

People who relapse usually do so because they accepted the things they could have changed.

AA is not for people who need it. AA is not for people who want it. AA is for people who do it.

If you don't drink--you are having a good day, even if you are too dumb to know it.

Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar. 

Always remember that you are unique. Just like everyone else. 

I only have one character defect left ... and it's just that I think about myself damn near all the time.

If you think you are an AA watchdog, just remember that watchdogs have to bark and bite. 

There are no stupid questions, only stupid answers.

My life is none of my business. I just suit up and show up and do what is in front of me to do and let God take care of the results. 

God respects us when we work and loves us when we sing. 

Inch by inch it's a cinch; yard by yard it's hard. (Alesia) 

While I'm waiting for my ship to come in I'll probably be at the airport (Alesia) 

Yesterday is history, Tomorrow is a mystery, Today is a gift from God - That's why it's called the present. (Alesia) 

If you're coasting, you're going downhill. (Alesia) 

Pray as if it's all up to God, work as if it's all up to you. (Alesia) 

AA may not open the gates of heaven and let me in, but it sure opened the gates of hell and let me out. (Alesia) 

Religion is man-made, god isn't. (Alesia)

It isn't that they can't see the solution.  It's that they can't see the problem. (G.K. Chesterton) 

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. (Arthur Ashe) 

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. (Marilyn vos Savant) 

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failures. (Edward Eggleston) 

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate." ( Elbert Hubbard )

If I take the first drink then my PAST becomes my FUTURE!  ( Frank N. )

The past is like a rear view mirror.  You have to glance at it on occasion, but if you focus on it you won't see what is right in front of you.  ( Sorry - I forgot to add the name - notify and I will add it in )

It's hard waking up with someone you don't like when your sleeping alone. SO wake up with GOD.   ( Brad )

90 meetings in 90 days does bring a MIRACLE...   ( Kim & Toni )

From my sponsor moments before he passed away in my arms, "Keep the program going - God will give you the strength to handle ANYTHING if you just ask him to ---- I love you".

If we are not humble, we are humiliated.  ( Lisa Z.  11/11/99 )

When your only tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.  ( Frank N.  12/9/99 )

Alcohol allows you to use it until it uses you.  ( Frank N.  12/9/99 )

In AA the inmates run the asylum.  ( Frank N.  12/9/99 )

The only stupid question is the one not asked!  ( Frank N.  12/9/99 )

On Slippery Places: If a doctor told you that having sex would be fatal, it wouldn't be in your best interest to buy your cigarettes in a whorehouse, or date a nymphomaniac!  ( Frank N.  12/9/99 )

A person looking for God is like a fish in the ocean looking for water!
( Frank N.  12/9/99 )

Wherever you are, "Be There"!  ( Frank N.  12/9/99 )

Every time I drank I broke out in spots, like Mexico, Bakersfield, etc.
( Frank N.  12/9/99 )

Religion is for those who want life after death.  Spirituality is for those who want life BEFORE death!  ( Frank N. 12/9/99 )

Alcoholics are like flowers;  we're either growin' or dyin'
(Austin from North London 12/19/99 )

If ya don't plant seeds you don't get flowers (step 12) ( Lyn C. 12/19/99 )

Looking for god is like a fish looking for water.  ( David C. / SF Bay Area ) 12/29/99

This too shall pass... ...like a kidney stone.  ( David D. / Dallas TX ) 12/29/99

AA meetings work because not everyone goes crazy every day. ( David D. / Dallas TX ) 12/30/99

My best days sober seem to include the actual sound of my higher power's voice saying wryly, "'Ya Think?!"  ... complete with that ACSII wink  ;-) you have to stand on your ear to see.  ( Sherry H.  1/18/00 )

Before spiritual awakening...chop wood, carry water.  After spiritual awakening...chop wood, carry water.  ( Theresa B. ) 1/27/00

The direction we're facing has much to do with our destination: are we in the solution or the problem, are we developing or avoiding a relationship with our HP, am I doing my program or not?  The answer to the direction I am facing, is either in the doing or not doing of the 12 Steps.  ( Chris ) 2/8/00

I have learned that if you do not like wh