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We believe that addiction is the greater enemy, and no matter how you recover, or what fellowship you follow, you cannot do it alone. From a phrase in a book, a quote at a meeting, a suggestion at the coffee pot, we all need help in our daily lives.
This site is a collection of sayings gathered in one place to help us remember and pass along what has been so freely given to us.
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Recovery Quote of the Day-
“Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for - Marion Wright Edelman”
Thursday - September 22, 2022
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How to Support a Loved One Through Addiction Recovery
Watching a loved one struggle through the rehabilitation process can be a difficult thing. You may feel at a loss, unsure as to how you can help. Fortunately, you don’t need to be a trained professional to support a person through the more...
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Guide to Smashing Through an Alcohol Detox:
This guide outlines the basic steps involved in an alcohol detox.
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Yesterdays Recovery Quotes
- Happiness is not a station we arrive at; it’s a way of traveling.
- It's OK to look back at the past, just don't stare at it.
- I need to keep it simple, but I don't
- Happiness is not a station we arrive at; it’s a way of traveling
- I have a way to live that fills every hole my gut ever had
- Are you finally ready to let go and live your destiny?
- I feel bad for drowning the little girl inside me.
- I get addicted to anything I have tried twice and liked.
- Left to my own devices I will think its OK to drink again.
- I struggle with the thoughts in my head.
- Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be
- I thirst for spiritual milk
- What's born in the darkness shrivel's in the light.
- You can't fix what you cannot face.
- Not to change is not to adapt; not to adapt is to become extinct
- Life moves on whether you are a part of it or not.
- I realized I liked being alive the closer to death I got.
- Tell me who you hang with and I will tell you who you are.
- Fear is an incompetent teacher
- Forgiveness has healed my soul
- In recovery, it’s not our feelings that matter; it’s our actions.
- If you want to be happy, be. - Leo Tolstoy
- You have to let yourself be happy!
- What you do speaks louder than what you say!
- If you look for comfort you will never find truth
- I am all of my family before me.
- We work; we struggle; we will survive.
- You will forget what I say to you, but you will never forget what I do for you.
- You cannot fix feelings with feelings.
- Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future
- You can never get enough of what you don't really want.
- I have mixed drinks about feelings.
- Tragedy is a test of courage.
- Expect nothing and you will enjoy everything.
- Are you willing to be amazed?
- Sobriety is a constant process of uncovering, discovering, and discarding.
- The only way I ever found to displace a thought was to put another thought in its stead.
- I do not stand by in the presence of evil!
- It's not to good to be ture, it's just more than i'm used to.
- If your not failing at something then your not trying hard enough!
- We would rather be ruined than change!
- I live simply so that others may simply live.
- The human species is a parade of fools and I am often at the head of it.
- I try to learn from my critics, often they are my best teachers
- God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- When you deny your vulnerability you become less attractive.
- I ask God for one good humiliation a day and then notice how i react to it...
- I am thankful to God for all that I have, and for all that I don't have.
- Sometimes I wonder if this illness isn't a gift rather than a problem.
- Life is travel -- enjoy the journey, bumpy roads and all.
- We are called to unity, not uniformity.
- If it were not for the 'we' of 12 step programs, there would be no 'I.
- The only way to get on your feet is to get off your butt.
- A real leader always speaks the truth, even to their own detriment
- I know what will happen if I drink,...I don't know what will happen if I don't
- It feels good to be trusted.
- It's a waste of time to take God's inventory.
- What we practice is what we become
- What matters is what works, not my opinion of what works
- Nothing improves if I drink
- Only the sharing of despair can bring us ... illumination.
- What we will be tomorrow is determined by what we think today.
- My life was more than unmanageable, it was illegal.
- Serenity is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.
- I hate humans, but i am a really big social person
- If faith without works is dead, willingness without action is fantasy.
- My desire to drink became a desire not to.
- Coincidences are merely a manner in which God protects his anonymity.
- Success and failure share a common denominator,...both are tempoarary.
- Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want
- What I feel is not a fact, but it is a fact that I feel
- I do not have a drinking problem any more, but I do have a living problem
- Do not take your spiritual temperature with an emotional thermometer.
- To be teachable, i had to be reachable
- Times change, addiction doesn't
- God will change you without your permission
- I didn't have to get high and die
- Know God, Know Peace,....No God, No Peace!
- I learned that if I had the capacity to be honest, I would get better.
- Trust in a Higher Power, Clean House, Help Others
- Recovery is the first thing in my life that has really worked
- You lie to yourself long before you lie to anyone else.
- Now that my spiritual eyes have begun to open, the world is much fuller.
- Change is scary, even if it promises a better life
- Teamwork makes the Dream Work!
- Addiction put me on an endless dead end road
- Happiness is not perfected until it is shared
- God, please get in my head today before i do
- I'm not where i wanna be, but i'm not where I used to be!
- Everything you want is on the other side of FEAR
- I know how they felt because I felt that way about myself
- My thinking couldn't fix my thinking
- I need to act like i have done some steps...
- When the horse is dead, get off!!
- I don't have to take your inventory, you will show it to me anyway!!
- It's not our enemies that defeat us, it is our fear.
- Yesterday is History, and tomorrow is a Mystery
- Joy comes from living the way my conscience tells me to live
- Love yourself the same way you want someone else to love you
- Screw the baby steps, jump in and stay in!
- It's the routine that's killing you!
- Fantasy was my first addiction
- There is a crack in everything, that's where the light gets in.
- The best way out is always through - Robert Frost
- I cannot wait around for someone else to decide my life for me.
- The only thing keeping you from being happy is the belief that you are alone.
- I don't have enough information to know if it's good or bad for me!
- We'll ALL be OK because we already are!
- Am I in the cycle of Recovery, or the cycle of ADDICTION??
- Once you know better, you are RESPONSIBLE to do better
- Control is impossible the moment it is suggested!
- My story is SUFFICIENT
- God allowed this to happen ON purpose, but it was FOR a purpose!
- Nobody has to understand what I understand, it's not up for debate
- Between now and DEAD, I AM the architect
- You didn't Cause it, you cannot Control it, and you can't Cure it!
- Anything is possible until your heart stops beating
- Jealousy is not a sign of Love, it is a sign of insecurity
- We prove ours fears true all the time, Dr. Laura
- There are only 2 ways out of pain, make a decision, take an action
- Let it hurt, then let it go
- We can never re-capture the rapture, but we can regain the pain
- If we fail to 'repair', we can only impair
- My life goal is not to be happy, it is to be useful
- Your bottom is when you decide to stop digging
- When we see our uniqueness as a virtue, only then do we find peace
- Everybody needs a witness to their life
- The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time - James Taylor
- We suffer more often in imagination than in reality - Seneca
- Easy Choices, Hard Life - Hard Choices, Easy Life
- People like you when you are interested in them
- Forgiveness cannot change the past, but it can change the future
- I cannot control the wind, but i can adjust my sails
- Suffering is in the resistence to what is
- Do what you need to do, not what you want to do - Ida Keeling 100 years old
- A man grows with the greatness of his task
- If you don't share your history, your recovery will be a mystery
- Be the change you want to see in the world - Ghandi
- The past is an enormous place with all sorts of things inside
- I was treating my friends like the clean up crew
- If i do something perfectly, it was by mistake
- It's human nature to run from pain
- Happiness is a moment, not a state of being
- God will put in my path what i need, not what i think i want
- Self Esteem comes from impressing yourself
- I give up, i want to be available for tomorrow
- Alcoholics and addicts either fix themselves, or they don't get fixed
- God never misses a meeting
- Those that have been hurt the most often have the greatest ability to heal
- I had to remember to make amends to myself during my 9th step
- Train yourself to let go everything you fear to lose - Yoda
- I constantly live in fear of the wreckage of my future
- We are all broken,...that's how the light gets in
- Relapse is part of addiction, it is not a part of recovery
- Some of the best gifts come in the worst wrapping paper
- Anything you put before recovery you will lose
- I'm not everybody's cup of tea, that's why they make coffee
- A grateful addict will not use
- Existence can be beutiful or ugly, but that's on you
- Life is easier when your numb
- I'm very proud of my humility
- A man wishing to be unhappy will find many ways to prove his course
- You matter because you are you, you matter to the last moment of your life
- Dedicate your life to the thing you Love more than yourself
- Dear Lord let me laugh today, but don't let me forget how I cried
- I stopped making my life recovery, and started making recovery my life
- I bring the message to the prison, so that i don't have to go to prison.
- You have to get through the mess to get to the message
- Turn the stumbling block in to a stepping stone - Bruce Lee
- The more I learn the more I need to learn
- I live my life in constant fear of an uncertain future
- I need to stop putting a question mark where God has put a period
- I am a man of deep abiding faith that comes and goes
- Admit,...Accept,...Surrender,...Admit,...Accept,...Surrender,...
- My Will are my thoughts, My Actions are my life.
- When we Love, we will see in others what we want to see in ourselves
- Life is the shit that happens while your waiting for moments that never come
- Patience is slowing down to someone else's speed
- You have to meet people where they are, not where you want them to be
- When I feel "OK" with myself I tend not to want to take a drink
- We do not lead others in to the light by stepping in to the darkness with them
- Just because were here doesn't mean were all there
- My fellowship may or may not get me to Heaven, but it sure got me out of hell
- There is no comfort in the growth zone, and no growth in the comfort zone
- Do the right thing, it will gratify some people, and astonish the rest
- Get the facts first, then you can distort them if you please
- You can't move forward if your still hanging on
- We don't give advice, we give suggestions based on experience
- Forget 'Keep coming back', and just stay with us
- Just because your having a bad day doesn't mean your having a bad life
- Don't count the days, make the days count
- The bottom started falling out faster than I could lower my standards
- Always do your best, what you plant now, you will harvest later - Og Mandino
- Life is really simple, but we isist on making it complicated - Confucius
- Make a habit of two things, to help, or at least do no harm - Hippocrates
- Start where you are, use what you have, do what you can - Arthur Ashe
- My life is full of disasters, most of which didn't happen
- Hope is a talent like any other - Storm Jameson
- Hell is other people - Jean-Paul Sartre
- When the student is ready, the teacher will appear
- My head is a bad neighborhood to be by myself in
- Growing old is natural, growing up is spiritual
- You can't stay sober today on yesterday's sobriety
- The moment I take control is when I lose control
- It's OK to look back at your life, just don't STARE at it.
- God helps those who help themselves, do nothing, and nothing will happen
- When you speak, talk to the newcomer, don't try to impress the old timer
- I went to a party when I was 15 and didn't go home until I was 50
- I work 5 days a week, mostly on Saturdays
- If you judge the messenger, you won't listen to the message
- You don't have to live in the past, just remember the past
- When do people start to live?.... When they face death...
- I didn't get here because I saw the light, i got here because I felt the heat
- Fear knocked at the door, faith answered, and no one was there
- Seven days without a meeting makes one weak
- I didn't think much of myself in the past, but I thought about myself all the time
- Would you like to be right, or happy
- If you are on the wrong road God allows U-Turns
- The important things are not things
- The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well
- Anger is only a symptom of what is really going on
- What everyone thinks of me is none of my business
- Every new day is another chance to change your life
- I'm recovering, that's my little fact
- Don't believe everything you think
- Turn your face to the sun and the shadows will fall behind you
- Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life
- Stay strong, recovery is possible
- Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase
- To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better
- The past is seldom as we would have it
- Honor the path of others
- Expectations are the first step of a resentment
- The secret to success is found in your daily routine - John Maxwell
- I was running from myself, the problem was I was taking myself with me
- Everyone needs a higher power, because people will let you down
- Addiction is the only prison where the locks are on the inside
- Recovery takes time, and time takes time
- I wasn't a bad person doing bad things, I was a sick person doing sick things
- Addiction is bound up in the creative mind
- Don't drink and go to meetings
- If you don't drink, you won't get drunk
- Faith, it does not make things easy, it makes them possible
- I rarely have a conversation with myself that I disagree with
- One day at a time
- Let go or be dragged
- Fall down seven times, stand up eight
- You are not what you've done, you are what you have overcome
- The only difference between a good day and a bad day is your attitude
- Keep it simple
- Easy does it
- Tough times don't last, tough people do
- Self Love
- I'm not telling you it's going to be easy, i'm telling you it's going to be worth it
- Leave scales to the fish
- Sometimes I just gotta let it go and say to hell with it and move on
- Become who you are
- You are beautiful
- Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny
- Don't let the fear of relapsing keep you from recovery
- Never stop fighting
- Real recovery is a complete lifestyle change
- Breathe in joy and strength, breathe out wisdom and peace
- I'm gonna make the rest of my life, the best of my life
- Dear God, I know i'm not perfect, but thanks for loving me anyway
- I am in repair, i'm not together, but i'm getting there
- Recovery is the bridge between who you were and who you are
- And what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us
- If you only walk on sunny days, you will never reach your destination
- Sometimes you have to be your own hero
- Keep calm and carry the message
- The past can hurt, but you can either run from it, or, learn from it
- I knew nothing about nothing, and thought I knew everything about everything
- Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly
- Integrity is doing the right thing when no one is watching
- Walking in the sunlight of the spirit
- I never came out of blackout happy, joyous and free
- When my butt is on a barstool I know everything about everything
- No matter what - you don't have to pick up.
- Until the pain gets strong enough, there will be no change
- It came to pass; it didn't come to stay
- May your lost dreams of yesterday become the reality of your tomorrow
- Hit your knees,.....not the bottle
- I can't fix anyone but me, and that's a full time job
- Recovery is an inside job
- Just for today
- Think Think Think
- First things first
- How important is it
- Keep an open mind
- Live and let live
- Have an attitude of gratitude
- Mind your own business
- Progress not perfection
- Change the things I can
- Drunk says - Look Mom, i'm 19 years sober. Mom says - so is the cat.
- Wonderful things happen one day at a time
- Listen and learn
- Let go and let God
- This too shall pass
- Great expectations can lead to great disappointments
- If it is to be, it is up to me
- If you think handling everything is too much, try letting go
- Fear is a darkroom where negatives are developed
- Take what you like and leave the rest
- Measure yourself by your best moments not your worst
- Remember yesterday, dream of tomorrow, but live for today
- The longest journey starts with the first step
- Recovery is a process, not an event-it takes time
- You must be present to win
- Each new day offers a new opportunity
- One hour at a time,..one day at a time,..one step at a time
- It's alcohol-ISM, not alcohol-WASM
- A.A. also stands for,...Attitude Adjustment
- I can only carry the message, I can"t carry the drunk
- Happiness is not getting what you want, it is wanting what you get
- It's never to late to be what you might have been
- There ain't no big deals
- If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got
- If you keep doin' what your doin', you'll keep gettin' what your gettin'
- Looking for God is like a fish looking for water
- Listen to the message,..not the messenger
- Feel, Deal and the Heal,..(Feel it, Deal with it and then Heal from it)
- Hope is knowing the good in us will overcome the bad
- Happy, Joyous & Free
- God speaks to us all a little differently, hoping we'll tell each other
- Even if I'm on the right track, if I don't move I'll get run over
- Don't give up five minutes before the miracle
- Do not be discouraged
- Don't take everything personally
- When you feel left out, reach out
- Have patience with all things, but first with yourself
- Serenity comes when I stop expecting and start accepting
- Today is the tomorrow that I worried about yesterday
- Glance at the past, but don't stare at it
- Wherever you go- there you are
- To live or just exist- the choice is yours
- Focus on the program-not the problem
- One needn't make a crisis out of an incident
- When you're flat on your back, there's no way to look but up
- As you go through life, make this your goal- watch the donut not the hole
- No is a complete sentence
- It's hard to be hateful when you're being grateful
- Ulcers are what you get from mountain climbing on mole hills
- If you find yourself in a rut, stop digging
- The way to get anywhere is to start from where you are
- If you want serenity, put your Higher Power between you & your problem
- Expectations are premeditated resentments
- The main thing, is to keep the main thing, the main thing
- I may not be there yet, but i'm closer than I was yesterday
- A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ship's are for
- If your going through hell, keep going - Winston Churchill
- The fool didn't know it wasn't possible, so he did it
- The only failure is inaction, the rest is trial and error
- No one is to busy in this world, it's all about priorities
- No one can hurt you without your permission
- You never know the truth, you know a truth
- Be yourself, everyone else is already taken - Oscar Wilde
- Whether you think you can or can't, either way you're right - Henry Ford
- If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything - Mark Twain
- Be the person your dog thinks you are - JW Stephens
- I know for sure, what we dwell on is who we become - Oprah Winfrey
- Death ends a life, not a relationship - Mitch Albom
- Better to get hurt by the truth, than comforted with a lie - Khaled Hosseini
- Do I not destory my enemies by making them my friends - Abraham Lincoln
- Luck is the residue of design - John Milton
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