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Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) Sayings
The following are often quoted or mentioned in AA meetings.
"An alcoholic is an egomaniac with an inferiority complex."--Anonymous
"Humility doesn't mean to think less of yourself, it means to think of yourself less."--Anonymous
"Half measures availed us nothing."--AA Big Book
"When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing, or situation--some fact of my life--unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing, or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment."--Alcoholics Anonymous, 3rd Edition, page 449 (The Big Book)
"Easy Does It."
"Take Life One Day at a Time."
"Let Go and Let God."
"Live and Let Live."
"Turn it over."
"But for the Grace of God--There Go I!"
"Let it begin with me."
"Just for today."
"When you point a finger at another, you have three fingers pointing back at you."
"Get out of yourself and into action."
"Poor me, poor me, pour me another drink."
"Whoever seeks revenge should build two coffins."
"You can carry the message but not the alcoholic."
"There are no victims only volunteers."
"Get out of your own way."
"Act as if."
"Do the next right thing."
"To thine own self be true."
"Recovery is the process of recovering who we are."
"Live in the solution not the problem."
"Live life on life's terms."
"Sobriety ruins your drinking."
"I cannot afford resentments."
"You are as sick as your secrets."
"Detach with love."--Al-Anon
"I didn't cause it. I can't change it. I can't control it."--Al-Anon
RELATED QUOTATIONS VARIOUS SOURCES
"Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace."--Buddha
"Recovery is the process of recovering who you were as a child."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Detach with love."--Al-Anon teaching
"God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me."--Anonymous
"Resolve to be thyself; and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery."--Matthew Arnold
"The attitude of unconditional self-acceptance is probably the most important variable in their long-term recovery."--Albert Ellis, Rational-Emotive Therapy with Alcoholics and Substance Abusers, page 71
"Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing."--Chuang-Tzu
"Correct it or accept it."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer somebody else up."--Mark Twain
"Recovery does not take care of itself no matter how old it is."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?"--Matthew 6:25
"Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof."--Matthew 6:34
"And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on."--Luke 12:22
"You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give."--Eleanor Roosevelt
"I've developed a new philosophy--I only dread one day at a time."--Charlie Brown
Maturity with Quotations
Miscellaneous Quotations of Author
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA): The 12 Traditions of
Addictions: 7 Pillars of Recovery
RELATED LINKS
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