Recovery quotes

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.

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 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.

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

Uncover...Discover...Discard.

Those who relapse are attending powerlessness graduate school.

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

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

A fear faced is a fear erased.

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

I will selfishly go to any lengths to obtain, maintain and defend my sobriety so that through the action of this program I will grow to be unselfish.

If you keep doing what you're doing - you'll keep getting what you're getting.

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

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

The answer is not in the problem, the answer is in the answer.

Those who laugh - last.

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.

We come to the program thinking we are at the end of the line, whereas we are just at the start of a journey.

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

Where God guides, God provides.

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.

Pain is necessary, suffering is optional!

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

Stinking thinking leads to drinking.

Suffering because life cannot satisfy selfish desire is like suffering because a banana tree will not bear mangoes.

Surrendering means you don't have to fight any more.

A joy shared is twice the joy, a pain shared is half the pain.

After you talk in a meeting, listen to hear if you said anything.

Alcohol gave me wings to fly, then it took away the sky.

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

Carry the message, not the mess.

Come to ninety meetings in ninety days. If you're not satisfied, we'll refund your misery.

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

Easy Does It.

Expectations are preconceived resentments.

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

Do not count the days, make the days count.

It's okay to make plans but don't plan the outcomes.

Isolation is the Darkroom where I develop all my Negativity!

The first step adds years to my life, the rest add life to my years.

It's not great, but it's better, and sometimes better is all we get.

I spent a lifetime in hell and it only took me twelve steps to get to heaven

We have good news and bad news here. The good news is you never have to drink again even if you want to. The bad news is that we're your new friends.

Sorrow looks back; Worry looks ahead; Faith looks up!

I am the black sheep of the family. I came to Alcoholics Anonymous and found the rest of the herd.

I don't thank God for opening the gates of Heaven and letting me in, I thank God for opening the gates of Hell and letting me out.

Slippery Souls need Sober Shoes.

Happiness keeps You Sweet, Trials keep You Strong, Sorrows keep You Human, Failures keep You Humble, Success keeps You Glowing, But Only God keeps You Going! Keep smiling.

When you dance with a gorilla it is the gorilla who decides when to stop.

It works if you work it, so work it cause you're worth it.

I only drank on special occasions, like the grand opening of a pack of cigarettes.

Just remember to B-R-E-A-T-H-E... Breathe in God, breathe out self.

Expectations are resentments waiting to happen.

I finally learned to slow down and enjoy life's journey, instead of fast, hard and continuous. I'm at home no matter where I go. Longevity is what I hope to achieve with my sobriety. That's why the turtle is my AA Mascot.

Meeting Makers Make It!

I'm not in the results business. I'm in the efforts business. S.L.I.P. = Sobriety Lost Its Priority.