Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Wisdom for Recovery. Wisdom for Life.

 

  • First Things First

  • Live and Let Live

  • Let go and let God

  • Time takes time

  • One day at a time

  • Is your program powered by Will Power or Higher Power?

  • Cultivate an attitude of gratitude

  • Misery is optional

  • God never made no junk

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

  • Live life on life’s terms

  • You can’t think your way into a new way of living…you have to live your way into a new way of thinking

  • The key to freedom is in the Steps

  • GOD = Good Orderly Direction

  • HALT = don’t get too Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired

  • Your worth should never depend on another persons opinion

  • HOW it works = Honesty, Open mindedness, and Willingness

  • SLIP = Sobriety Lost Its Priority

  • It’s a simple program for complicated people

  • The newcomer is the most important person in any meeting

  • Keep coming back, it works if you work it

  • Learn to listen and listen to learn

  • Many meetings, many chances; few meetings, few chances; no meetings, no chances

  • Meeting makers make it

  • People who don’t go to meetings don’t hear about what happens to people who don’t go to meetings

  • To keep what you have, you have to give it away

  • How does it work? It works just fine

  • If you don’t want to slip, stay away from slippery places

  • If you do what you always did, you’ll get what you always got

  • If you sit in the barber’s chair long enough, you’ll eventually get a haircut

  • Most things can be preserved in alcohol; dignity, however, is not one of them

  • Progress, not perfection

  • Resentment is like drinking poison and expecting someone else to die

  • think……think…….think

  • Keep it simple

  • This too shall pass

  • Stick with the winners

  • H O P E = Happy Our Program Exists

  • Recovery is a journey …not a destination

  • To thine own self be true

  • Turn it over

  • Nothing is so bad, a drink won’t make it worse

  • Willingness is the key

  • Take what you need and leave the rest

  • If you expect respect, be the first to show some

  • Keep the plug in the jug

  • Do it sober

  • Although we are not responsible for our disease we are responsible for our recovery

  • Hugs not Drugs

  • Just for Today

  • Recovery doesn’t happen overnight

  • Pass it on

  • If you want to stay clean, don’t use

  • Don’t quit before the miracle happens

  • Learn to listen and listen to learn

  • Use the 24-hour plan

  • Nobody ever found recovery as a result of an intellectual awakening

  • When all else fails, follow directions

  • Change is a process, not an event

  • Call your sponsor before, not after, you take the first drink

  • Give time time

  • I was sick and tired of being sick and tired

  • You only get out of it what you put into it

  • It’s the first drink that gets you drunk

  • An addict alone is in bad company

  • Recovery begins with the First Step

  • Help is only a phone call away

  • Nothing changes if nothing changes

  • It is possible to change without improving - it is impossible to improve without change

  • Experience, strength and hope not opinions, bullshit and dope

  • One drink is too many and a thousand not enough

  • Keep coming back

  • An addict cannot be grateful and hateful at the same time

  • Easy does it

  • Easy does it but do it

  • Stick with the winners - Win with the stickers

  • Serenity is not freedom from the storm but peace amid the storm

  • Feelings are not facts

  • Principles before personalities

  • Turn it over, don’t turn it off

  • Seven days without a meeting makes one weak

  • Growing old is mandatory - Growing up is optional

  • Slogans are wisdom written in shorthand

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