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.