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Everybody has a favorite meeting quote or remembers some words of wisdom from a recent meeting. This is the place to share them. You can add some by going to the “Meeting Quotes” section of the forums.
“I get to take me with me… even in sobriety.”
“Just for today.”
“Judgmental people are doomed to be vain or bitter.”
“I tried controlled un manageability… it didn’t work.”
“Today is a very important day–it’s the only day you have.”
“God’s message to me is ‘stay out of the way, but be ready!'”
“We are called to unity, not uniformity.”
“If the grass is greener on the other side it must be due to all the fertilizer they are putting on it.”
“Insanity is as close as saying yes to the wrong impulse.”
“If you pray for patience you will be given many opportunities to practice it.”
“Time takes time.”
“For those still to come, you cannot believe the view from here – wow!”
“Addiction was only a small price I had to pay to get this powerful program in my life today.”
“Courage is Fear that has Learned How to Pray”
“The difference between scared and sacred is how we ‘C’ ourselves”
“The only problem with isolation is I’m the only one I get my solutions from.” (scary thought)
“Sometimes the hardest decision in life is which bridge to cross and which one to burn”
“Things aren’t necessarily going wrong just because they’re not going my way”
“I’m not where I need to be but thank God I’m not where I used to be”
“Justification and rationalization leads to masturbation because you’re just screwing yourself”
“The worst prison is in your own mind”
“You can’t stay sober today on yesterday’s sobriety”
“I may not be much, but I’m all I think about all day!”
“I would be fine, If I listened to opinions other than just my own…….”
“Keep your acceptance level high and your expectation level low!”
“Going to meetings is like taking aspirin before a headache.”
“I don’t know how to make it better but I sure know how to make it worse.”
“It’s A Really Good Day To Be Clean, But It’s A Great Day To Be In Recovery”
“Be good to yourself!”
“There are several paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is the same.”
“Dope is liking cutting your throat with an electric razor. It hurts a lot and can take a long time!”
“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” – Einstein
“What if there were no “what if” to what if about.”
“This is my opinion and if you don’t agree or like what I have to say then pray for me because I always want to get better”
“Isolation is the dark room I enter to develop my negatives.”
“When I am alone and thinking, I am behind enemy lines.”