90 meetings in 90 days
A drug is a drug is a drug
A grateful alcoholic never drinks
A head full of AA and a belly full of booze
A simple program for complicated people
AA can't prevent a relapse but it can ruin one
AA has a wrench to fit every nut that walks through the door
AA is an education without graduation
AA is not for people who need it it is for people who want it!
AA is the last house on the block
AA messes up your drinking
AA stands for Attitude Adjustment
AA will work if you want it to work
Acceptance is the answer to all of your problems today
Act As If
Addiction is the only disease that tells you that you don't have a disease
Alcohol is Cunning, Baffling, and Powerful
Alcohol wants to kill me
Alcoholics don't have relationships; they take hostages
Alcoholism is a physical compulsion coupled with a mental obsession
Alcoholism is an equal opportunity destroyer
All you need to start a meeting is two drunks, a resentment, and a coffee pot
Analysis is paralysis
Anger is but one letter away from danger
Are you in AA, or around AA?
Are you walking towards a drink or away from one?
Arrive 20 minutes early, stay 20 minutes late
Be as enthusiastic about AA as you were about your drinking
Be careful what you pray for; you're liable to get it
Be part of the solution, not the problem
Before engaging your mouth, put your mind in gear
Bend your knees before you bend your elbow
Beneath every skirt, there is a slip
Breathe in, breathe out, don't drink between breaths
Bring the body and the mind will follow
But for the grace of God
Carry the message, not the mess
Cunning, baffling, and powerful
Dating is like pouring Miracle Gro on my character defects
DENIAL = Didn't Even Notice I Am Lying
Denial isn't just a river in Egypt
Depression is anger turned inward
Do the steps or die
Dont quit before the miracle happens
Don't drink, read the big book, and go to meetings
Don't let anything get in the way of your recovery
Don't let them rent space in your head
Don't romance the drink
Don't take someone else's inventory
Don't take yourself too seriously
Don't worry, if you don't get the program right away, it will get you
Dry drunk
Easy does it
EGO = Edging God out
Every day is a gift That's why we call it the present
Expect miracles
Faith without works is dead
Fake it 'til you make it
FEAR = Face everything and recover
FEAR = False evidence appearing real
FEAR = Fuck everything and run
Fear is the absence of faith
Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed
Feelings aren't facts
FINE = Fucked-up, insecure, neurotic, and emotional
First things first
Freely giving what was freely given to us
Friend of bill W
Get off the cross we need the wood
Get off the pity pot
Get on your knees
Get to a meeting even if your ass is on fire
GOD = Good orderly direction
GOD = Group of drunks
God could and would if He were sought
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference
God is doing for us what we can't do for ourself
God isn't finished with me yet
God will never give you more than you can handle
Half measures availed us nothing
HALT hungry, angry, lonely, and tired
Happy, joyous and free
Have a good day unless you have made other plans
HOW = Honesty, open-mindedness, willingness
How important is it?
I am a walking miracle
I am powerless over people, places, and things
I am sober today I don't know if I will relapse tomorrow
I am unique, just like everybody else
I came; I came to; I came to believe
I can't. he can. I think Ill let him
I didn't get into trouble every time I drank, but every time I got in trouble I was drunk
I didn't get sober to be miserable
I Don't Do Feelings
I got sick and tired of being sick and tired
I might have another drunk left in me, but do I have another recovery?
I must never forget that I have a disease that is insidious cunning, baffling, and powerful
I pray to God every day that I never get the idea that I can run my own life
I tried everything before AA
I want what I want when I want it
I would be in prison or dead if I hadn't come to AA
If AA uses brainwashing, then our brains must need to be washed
If God is your co-pilot, youd better switch seats
If God Seems Far Away, Who Moved?
If I take a drink, I take my life back
If it aint broke don't fix it
If it did not work for you, then you did not really try it
If it did not work for you, then you did not work the Steps the way they are laid out
If nothing changes, nothing changes
If Only
If you are having trouble getting on your knees to pray in the morning, put your shoes under the middle of the bed the night before
If you are too busy to pray, you are too busy
If you can't believe, then believe that I believe
If you don't like AA, then find a better meeting
If you don't want to slip, avoid slippery places
If you hang around the barber shop long enough, you'll get a haircut
If you point a finger at someone, you will find three pointed back at you
If you sober up a horse thief all you have is a sober horse thief
If you want to drink, that is your business If you want to quit, that is AA's business
If you want what we have and you're willing to go to any lengths to get it
If you want what we have, youll do what we do
If you wonder if you're an alcoholic, you probably are
If your ass falls off, put it in a paper bag and take it to a meeting
In AA we don't carry the alcoholic; we carry the message
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting different results
Instant ass-hole, just add alcohol
It gets better
It is suggested that you Work The Steps, just like how, if you jump out of an airplane with a parachute, it is suggested that you pull the ripcord to save your life
It isn't religious, it's spiritual
It isn't the load that weighs us down it's the way we carry it
It works if you work it
Its the first drink that gets you drunk
It's a disease of perception
It's easy to talk the talk, but you have to walk the walk
I've been here a few 24 hours
Jails, Institutions, or Death
Just For Today
Keep an attitude of gratitude
Keep an open mind
Keep Coming Back
Keep the plug in the jug
Keep your own side of the street clean
KISS = Keep It Simple, Stupid
Let Go and Let God
Let it go
Let us love you, until you can learn to love yourself
Life on life's terms
Live and let live
Live In The NOW
Look for similarities rather than differences
Make no major changes in the first year
Make Use Of Telephone Therapy
Many meetings, many chances A few meetings, a few chances No meetings, no chance
Meeting makers make it
Meetings, meditation, and masturbation
Minds are like parachutes they won't work unless they're open
Misery loves company
More will be revealed
My best friend became my worst enemy
My best thinking got me here
My daily sobriety is contingent on my spiritual condition
My disease is doing pushups in the parking lot
My disease wants to kill me
My worst day in sobriety is better than my best day drunk
No relationships in the first year
Nobody can understand an alcoholic better than another alcoholic
Nobody goes to AA because their life is great
Nobody is ever too dumb to get the program, but some people are too smart
Nothing is going to happen today that God can't handle
Nothing is so bad that a drink will not make it worse
Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic
Once you are a pickle, you can't be a cucumber
One day at a time
One drink is too many, and a thousand is not enough
Pain is the touchstone of spiritual growth
Pass it on
Poor me, poor me, pour me another drink
Practice these principles in all your affairs
Principles before personalities
Progress, Not Perfection
Quit Playing God
Recovery Is a Journey, Not a Destination
Religion is for those who dont want to go to Hell. spirituality is for those who have already been there
Remember that alcoholism is incurable, progressive, and fatal
Remember Your Last Drunk
Resign from the Debating Society
Rule 62: Don't take yourself so seriously
Selfishness, self-centeredness, that we feel is the root of all our troubles
Seven days without an AA meeting makes one weak
Sick and tired of being sick and tired
Sit Down, Shut Up, and Learn Something
Some are sicker than others
Some of us must die so that others can live
Stick with the winners
Stinkin' Thinkin'
Stop fighting everyone
Stop living in the problem and start living in the solution
Surrender to win
Take the cotton out of your ears and stick it in your mouth
Take what you need and leave the rest
Take What You Want, and Leave the Rest
Terminally unique
Thanks to the grace of God and the fellowship at AA I am alive today
The door swings both ways
The easier, softer way
The elevator is broken use the Steps
The first step is the only step a person can work perfectly
The odds are good, but the goods are odd
The only stupid question is the one you don't ask
The road to resentment is paved with expectation
The time to attend a meeting is when you least feel like going
The twelve steps are but suggestions only
There are no coincidences in AA
There are no musts in AA, only suggestions
There are no victims, only volunteers
There are none too dumb for the AA program but many are too smart
There is a God and I'm not it
There is no chemical solution to a spiritual problem
Think the drink through
Think think think
This is a program of rigorous honesty
This is a selfish program
This program isn't for people who need it, it's for people who want it
This too shall pass
To be of maximum service to others
To keep it, you have to give it away
To thine own self be true
Trust God. Clean house. Help others
Try 90 meetings in 90 days If it doesnt work, well gladly refund your misery
Try not to place conditions on your sobriety
Trying to pray is praying
Turn it over
Utilize, dont analyze
We are either working on recovery or we're working on a relapse
We are not a glum lot
We are not bad people trying to get good, we are sick people trying to get well
We are not human beings having spiritual experiences; we are spiritual beings having human experience
We are not saints
We are only as sick as our secrets
We are without defense against the first drink, our defense must come from a power greater than ourselves
We can do what I can't
We had to quit playing God
We have a disease that tells us we don't have a disease
We have given up fighting anybody or anything
We have no opinion on outside issues
Were all here because we're not all there
We'll love you, until you learn to love yourself
What you hear here, what you see here, let it stay here
When all else fails, follow directions
When an alcoholic tries to control their drinking they have already lost control
When anyone, anywhere, reaches out for help, I want the hand of AA always to be there: and for that, I am responsible
When God closes one door, he always opens another
When I drank, I was committing suicide on the installment plan
When Im alone in my head Im in a bad neighborhood
When the pain of staying sober becomes less than the pain of getting drunk
Willingness is the key
You are exactly where God wants you to be
You are in denial
You are not alone
You can act yourself into thinking right easier than you can think yourself into acting right
You can always tell an alcoholic, but you can't tell him much
You can carry the message but not the alcoholic
You can't give away what you don't have
You can't save your ass and your face at the same time
You don't have to wait till the basement to get off the down elevator
You either grow, or you go
You have a thinking problem, not a drinking problem
You have to give it away in order to keep it
You have to go to these meetings until you want to
You must be willing to go to any length for your sobriety
You need a checkup from the neck up
You never hear someone coming back telling you it got better
You spot it, you got it
You will be amazed before you are halfway through
Your disease progresses even when you are not drinking
You're only as sick as your secrets