90 meetings in 90 days
A GOOD day is when everything goes my way and I don't drink;
A GREAT day is when nothing goes my way and I don't drink.
A GREAT day is when nothing goes my way and I don't drink.
A slip begins long before the first drink.
AA is not for those who need it, it's for those who want it.
Act as if.
Action not distraction
Alcohol was but a symptom of our disease.
Alcoholics tend to be self-centered to the extreme.
An alcoholic is an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.
Anger hurts the one who feels it.
Avoid people, places and things that lead to drinking again.
Be careful, behind every skirt may be a slip.
Beyond your wildest dreams.
Bless them, Change me!
Bring the body around and the mind will follow.
But for the Grace of God there go I.
Call your sponsor.
Came, Came to, Came to believe
Change happens when the pain of holding on is greater than the fear of letting go.
Character is who you are when no one is looking.
Come early, stay late, get involved.
Courage is fear in action.
Disease: Dis-Ease
Do you want to be right or do you want to be happy?
Do your best and leave the rest to God.
Don’t allow anyone to hijack your self-esteem.
Don't give up five minutes before the miracle.
Don't let anybody live rent free in your head.
Don't project.
DON'T TAKE YOURSELF SO SERIOUSLY!
Easy Does It
EGO: Edging God Out!
Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you sit around too long.
Expectations are premeditated resentments.
Faith without works is dead.
Fake it till you make it.
FEAR: Face Everything And Recover!
Fear is a darkroom where negatives are developed.
FEAR: False Expectations Appearing Real
Find the Joy in your Sobriety.
First we learn to listen, then we listen to learn, then we learn who to listen to.
First Things First
G.O.D. Good Orderly Directions. Go to AA meetings; get a Big Book and read it (to at least page 164); get a sponsor; work the Steps.
God brought me to AA and AA brought me to God.
God will do for you what you can't do for yourself, but he won't do what you can.
Gratitude is a verb.
H.O.W: Honesty, Open-mindedness, and Willingness.
HALT: Don't get too Hungry, Angry, Lonely, or Tired!
Happiness is an inside job.
Happiness is not getting what you want, it’s wanting what you have.
Have Character, Don't be One!
Hit your knees.....not the bottle!
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking about yourself less.
Humility is the Key to Sobriety.
Hurt people, hurt people.
I may not be much but I'm all I think about.
I never met anyone too dumb to stay sober, but I’ve met lots of people who were too smart.
Identify don't Compare.
If it works don't fix it.
If you don't drink you can't get drunk.
If you don't want to slip, stay away from slippery places.
If You have the ability, You have the responsibility.
If you’re too busy to go to meetings, you’re too busy!
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
It works if you work it.
It’s hard to be hateful when you’re grateful.
It’s a simple program.
It's a “we” program. You are not alone.
It's a program of attraction rather than promotion.
It's a simple program for complicated people.
It's easier to stay sober then to get sober.
It's in giving that we receive. It's in self-forgetting that one finds.
It's not the weight that drags you down, it's how you carry it.
It's that first drink that gets you drunk.
Just because you are on the right road, doesn't mean it won't get rocky sometimes.
Just because you’re in recovery doesn’t mean the whole world is in recovery.
Keep an attitude of gratitude.
Keep an open mind.
Keep coming back.
Keep It Simple
Let Go and Let God.
Listen to the message, not the messenger.
Make God your first resource, not your last resort.
Meeting makers make it.
Most of life is suiting up and showing up.
No major decisions for the first year.
No matter how far off the path you stumble, you are only 12 steps away from the solution!
Nothing can happen that God and I can't handle together.
NUTS: Not Using The Steps
One is too many and a thousand is never enough.
Our code is Love and Tolerance.
Our Singleness of purpose: To carry the message to the next suffering alcoholic.
Pain is unavoidable, Suffering is optional.
Pass it on. You have to give it away in order to keep it.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Pick up the phone, before you pick up a drink!
Poor me, poor me, Pour me a drink.
Pray for the willingness to be willing.
Principles before Personalities.
Progress not perfection.
Resentment is the number one offender.
Resentment is to Re-feel.
Rule 62: "Don't take yourself too damn seriously"
Selfishness - Self-Centeredness that we think is the root of our trouble.
Serenity comes when I stop expecting and start accepting.
Seven days without a meeting makes one weak.
Slip: Sobriety losing its priority
Sobriety is God's gift to you; what you do with it is your gift to God.
Sobriety must come first.
Some are sicker than others.
Spiritual progress rather than spiritual perfection
Sponsor: have one, use one, be one.
Stick with the winners.
Stinkin' thinkin' leads to drinkin’.
Stop playing God.
Take what you can use and leave the rest.
The chief activator of our defects has always been self-centered fear.
The first one will set you up, the rest will knock you down.
The first thing you put before you sobriety, will be the second thing you lose.
The first three Steps: I can't, He can, I think I'll let Him.
The Hotter the Fire the Stronger the Steel.
The only difference between a stumbling block and a stepping stone is our attitude.
The Quality of Sobriety can never be measured by Time.
The smallest action is better than the greatest intention.
The Steps are in order for a reason.
The Steps protect us from drinking; the Traditions protect the program from us.
There are no big deals except God and the Steps. So if you’re making a big deal out of something and it’s not God or the Steps, all you’re doing is making a big deal of yourself.
There are no good reasons to drink, only bad excuses.
There is nothing so bad that a drink won't make worse!
They are only suggestions, so do them or die.
Think, Think, Think: Think a drink through.
This too shall pass.
Thy will not mine be done.
To thine own self be true.
Tough times don't last, but tough people do.
True forgiveness is forgetting.
Trust God, clean house, serve others
Turn it over.
Two things to know about God. 1) There is one. 2) You're not it.
We are as sick as our secrets.
We are only one drink away from a drunk.
We beat ourselves with the club of resentment.
We can't be all things to all people.
We carry the Message not the mess.
We suffer from alcohol-ISM, not alcohol-WASM
What looks good from afar, can be far from good.
What we resist, persists.
When in doubt, DON'T
When you’re hanging out in your head, you’re hanging out in a bad neighborhood.
Willingness is the key.
Worry: a terrible waste of imagination
Worry does not prevent disaster, it prevents joy.
Yesterday is history; Tomorrow is a mystery; Today is a gift; that’s why it’s called the Present!
You are either moving towards a drink or away from a drink
You can only coast going downhill.
You can't do it alone, and no one can do it for you.
You can't learn anything, if you think you know everything.
You could be one drink away from never being sober again.
You don’t have to go to every fight you’re invited to.
You got to get real to heal.
Your best thinking got you here.
“I am a work in progress.”
― Violet Yates, Lost & Found
desiderata
Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant, they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love, for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is perennial as the grass.
Take kindly to the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.
