Take an action, then let go of the results.

Take your time..... God does not wear a Rolex

Takers are losers, Givers are winners. (John H.)

Talk does not cook rice.

Tell it to your sponsor, or you will be telling it to a bartender.

Ten out of ten people die, so don't take life too seriously.

That which does not kill us, makes us stronger. (Friedrich W. Nietzsche)

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

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

The Rose in - both thorn and leaf - had the stem not accepted - had the rooting not accepted it's stem - had the seed not accepted it's rooting - it's entirety would never have - BLOOMED. (The Awakening)

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The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.(Winston Churchill)

The only thing alcoholics do in moderation is the 12 steps!

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)

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

The elevator is broken - take the steps!

The steps keep us from suicide; the traditions keep us from homicide.

The 3 C's: Didn't cause it, can't cure it, and can't control it. (Alanon)

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.

The 11th commandment: A new commandment I give you , love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. (Bible)

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

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

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

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

The good is often the enemy of the best. (Bill W.)

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)

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

The wise man seeks everything within himself. The ignorant man takes everything from others.

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

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place. (Washington Irving)

There is only one reason why men become addicted to drugs, they are weak men. Only strong men are cired, and they cure themselves.
--Martin H. Fischer

There's no one too dumb for this program, but it's possible to be too smart.

They have to do what they have to do.

Things I turn over to God most easily are those things already fixed.

Things have changed - I've tried it on for size but it no longer fits me. (Toni H.)

Those who laugh - last.

Those who matter, don't mind; those who mind, don't matter.

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)

To those who have made progress in AA, 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.)

Treat your head like a bad neighborhood: Don't go in there alone!

Treat your mind like a bad neighborhood - don't go there alone.

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

Try praying. Nothing pleases God more than to hear a strange voice.

Turn up a stereo to full volume then unplug it. In 2, 5,10 or 20 years later - if you plug it in again, the stereo will come on full volume. That's what alcoholism is like.

Unselfishness preserves life, whereas love of the ego kills it. (Gandhi)

Want to hear God laugh? Tell Him your plans.

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

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

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

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

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

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)

We are not punished for our sins, we are punished by our sins. (Buddha)

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

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

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

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.

When I take the third step prayer, self concern has no further place in my life. (Chuck C.)

When the world comes to an end, it will do so without my permission.

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

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

When I don't have expectations of others, anything positive they do is a pleasant surprise.

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.)

When it's OK to stay - THEN it's OK to go.

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

When the right time comes for us to move on to other things - God withdraws from us the sense of His presence in order to strengthen our faith. (Thomas Merton)

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.

Where God guides, God provides.

Who you see here; what you hear here; when you leave here; let it stay here.

Why do we keep going to the well when we know it's dry? (Alanon)

Worry is just negative goal-setting.

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

You cannot speed up your recovery...but you sure can slow it down

You don't get drunk making mistakes - you get drunk defending the mistakes you've made. (Clancy I.)

You can be just a crazy sober as you were drunk, you'll just remember it the next day.

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

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

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

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

You don't need to "find God"; He isn't lost.

You cannot stumble when you are on your knees.

You can act your way into the right thinking, but you can't think your way into the right action. (William James)

You're as sick as your secrets.

Your worth should never depend on another persons opinion.

Your real wealth can be measured not by what you have, but by what you are.

Your faith will never operate above the level of the words of your mouth. (Rev Fred Price)