Recovery Quotes:

• Try to be grateful and resentful at the same time, you can't serve two masters.
• Faith chases away fear.
• We have to give it away to keep it.
• Surrender to become Victorious.
• Don't work my program, or your program, work "the program".
• The alcoholic's mind is like a bad neighborhood, don't go there alone.
• Gratitude, that's the attitude.
• When the pain of staying sober becomes less than the pain of getting drunk, you'll stay sober.
• My worst day sober is better than my best day drunk.
• The elevator to sobriety is broken, take the steps.
• Religion is for people who are afraid they'll go to hell.
  Spirituality is for people who have been there.
• The quality of your recovery is proportional to the quality of your surrender.
• I'm basically a negative person, that's why I'm so happy.
• Untreated alcoholism without the steps on a daily basis will make my past my future.
• Tomorrow's a fantasy and yesterday's gone...there's only today
• When you've got one foot in yesterday and the other in tomorrow, you can only piss on today.
• An expectation is a premeditated resentment.
• You cannot save your ass and your face at the same time.
• Resentment is the poison I take to hurt you.
• You can't direct the wind, but you can adjust your sails.
• It is not length of life, but depth of life.
• Do not count the days, make the days count.
• Refrain from envy.....it's the source of much unhappiness.
• Kindness cannot be taught by harshness - not by any amount of harshness.
• Patience is counting down without blasting off.
• Its' okay to make plans but don't plan the outcomes.
• Isolation is the Darkroom where I develop all my Negativity!
• Do you want to be right or do you want to have peace?
• Do you want to be right or do you want to be happy?
• Live in the answer, not in the problem.
• Faith is not belief without proof; it's trust without reservation.
• A self sponsored person is a good example of unskilled labor.
• Stay a little longer, try a little harder.
• The first step adds years to my life, the rest add life to my years.
• Depression:  Anger without the enthusiasm...
• There is no pain in change, the pain comes from the resistance to change.
• Recovery is a journey between two stations. One station represents total
  chaos, and the other represents total serenity. What is important is not
  where you are, but what direction you are facing.
• People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
• You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true.
  You may have to work for it however.
• Surrender is a process not an event.
• Spirituality has as much to do with religion as honesty has to do with the truth.
• With an Attitude of Gratitude It's Impossible to get Drunk.
• My favorite definition of suggestion: Your house is on fire, I suggest you get out!
• Love and recovery are idle potential. They become real when they are shared.
• To forgive is to be released from the bondage of self.
• We are not measured by what we do, but by the things we overcome.
• It is the smallest of moments that define my sobriety.
• The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
• If someone's throwing dirt on you, they're losing ground.
• Just get out of your own way and relax
• You can't be hateful when you're grateful.
• A great remedy for anger is delay.
• SPONSORS: Have One...Use One...Be One.
• A pessimist is someone who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.
• Every time I close the door on reality, it comes back through the window.
• Fear is faith turned inside-out.
• Formula for failure: Try to please everyone.
• In life, pain is necessary; suffering is optional..
• Hearing is a gift, listening is an art.
• What other people think of you is none of your business.
• If you can't love everybody today, at least try not to hurt anybody.
• Forgiveness is a gift of high value, yet it cost's nothing.
• It is better to look ahead and prepare, than look back and regret.
• It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live for it.
• It is nice to be important, but more important to be nice.
• Good  judgement comes from experience and experience comes from poor judgement
• Resentments are like peeing your pants; nobody else feels it but you.
• It is not the load that breaks you down but the way you carry it.
• My head is like a bad neighborhood and I shouldn't go in there alone.
• No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
• Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
• Jumping to conclusions is a bad exercise.
• If you share your pain you cut it in half, if you don't you double it.
• Courage is fear in action.
• Attitudes are contagious--is yours worth catching.
• Life is what happens while you're making other plans.
• Minds are like parachutes for the function ONLY when OPEN.
• Courage is mastery of fear—not absence of fear.
• Forgiveness is giving up the hope of a better past.
• No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
• Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.
• Remember.... Always forgive your enemies, nothing annoys them as much.
• Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs.
• Some people develop eye strain looking for trouble.
• We didn't all come over on the same ship, but we're all in the same boat.
• Love tells me I am everything.
  Wisdom tells me I am nothing.
  And between the two my life flows.
• Dry up and tighten up.
• Failure isn't in falling down, it's in failing to get back up.
• A smile is a curve that can set things straight.
• The best way to keep your word is not to give it.
• Serenity Isn't freedom from the storm, it is peace within the storm.
• You can tell the size of the man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.
• Love thy neighbor as thyself, but choose your neighborhood.
• I  am not responsible for my feelings; but what I do with them.
• Experience is the hardest kind of teacher, it gives you the test first and the lesson afterwards.
• You never know what is enough, until you know what is more than enough.
• We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
• Only an open mind can be healed.
• If you still haven't found the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, just enjoy the rainbow.
• Men do not fail, they give up trying.
• Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
• Identify - Don't compare.
• Every misery I miss is a new blessing.
• Self pity is your worst enemy.
• It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
• Life is a hospital, in which every patient is possessed by the desire to change his bed.