MORE HELPFUL ACA/Al-Anon SAYINGS

"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."

"Al-Anon is not for people who need it, it's for people who want it."

"Part of compliance is defiance, but you must arrive at acceptance of the disease."

"I'm an egomaniac with an inferiority complex."

"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 need to put things in perspective because I have a disease of perception."

"An al-anon is chosen to find God."

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

"I'm a W.C.S. person. That's Worst Case Scenario."

"I'm basically a negative person, that's why I'm so happy."

"Untreated al-anonism without the steps on a daily basis will make my past my future."

"Uncover...Discover...Discard."

"Those who relapse are attending powerlessness graduate school."

"This program changes the way I relate to me. 
That's what I'm trying to do, change the way I relate to me."

"If you commit suicide you're killing the wrong person."

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

"A critic is a person who goes onto the battlefield after the battle has been fought and shoots the survivors."

"The shortest sentence in the Big Book is, "It Works."

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

"When you're in fear you're not in faith."

"A fear faced is a fear erased."

"I was a scream in search of a mouth."

"I didn't make it all the way to the beach to drown in the sand."

"Praying is asking God for help, meditating is listening for God's answer."

"The reason I'm here is because I'm not all there."

"My basic problem is that I flee from those who want me and I pursue the rejectors."

"When I live in the past, I live in regret. When I live in the future, I live in fear. When I stay in the NOW, everything's always okay."

"There's no speeding in the trudging zone."

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

"Courage is fear in action."

"Had the eyes no tears, the soul would have no rainbow."

"God will heal your broken heart, if you will give Him all the pieces."

"My life hereafter is from this moment on."

"We are attracted to people who share in our growth and progress and lose interest in those who don't."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear."

"Self will imprisoned me far more than bars ever did."

"I had to learn how to float in this program because I'm a sinker."

On relapse: "I never did anything in moderation...except maybe the steps."

"Bring the body and the mind follows."

"It's not the load that breaks you down...it's the way yo carry it."

"When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil."

"If everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane."

"Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path."

"Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition."

"Seven days without a meeting makes one weak."

Regarding hanging out at bars: "If you hang out at the barbershop long enough you're bound to get a haircut."

"Tomorrow's a fantasy and yesterday's gone...there's only today."

"Thank you, God, for the beautiful day I'm going to have if I can just get rid of my fucking attitude."

"We're sick people trying to get better, not bad people trying to be good."

"When you've got one foot in yesterday and the other in tomorrow, you can only piss on today."

"The only way to have gratitude is to live in the now, not in the past or the future."

"I didn't get my life back in this program...I got my life for the first time."

"I never had a problem that was worse than the old solution I found for it."

"What other people think of you is none of your business."

"If it wasn't for denial my life would be shit."

"Change only happens when the pain of holding on is greater than the fear of letting go."

"An expectation is a premeditated resentment."

"I thank God for Al-Anon and I thank Al-Anon for God. "

"If you can't love everybody today, at least try not to hurt anybody."

"The reasonable person adapts to society. An unreasonable person adapts society"

"Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to know one from the other."

"If it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter."

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

"If it is on it's way up, it is on it's way out."