Interesting/funny quotes/sayings you have heard in the rooms
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Resentments are like hemorrhoids, they only bother the ass hole who has them.
"This program is for people who want it, not people who need it." Page 315
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A fellow I sponsored would say "I have to hang with sober alcoholics because if God called me on the phone right now, I would hang up"
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Shared at a meeting by an oldtimer "Sometimes the thoughts in my head take a stroll out through my mouth. This is NEVER a good thing!" Cue much laughter or as I call it now 'identification'.
Don't know exactly where I am going but I'm on my way and it's already much better than where I've been.
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'How long do I have to participate in AA?'
'Until you enjoy doing it!'
'Until you enjoy doing it!'
One day at a time.
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Hahahahaa - cute!
Step 6 is "AA's way of stating, the best possible attitude one can take in order to make a beginning on this lifetime job... with most of them we shall have to be content with patient improvement." 12&12 Step Six, p.65
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..." when I see a normal drinker take a sip of their drink, put it down and take another sip an hour later ....... I call that alcohol abuse ".
" I was so sick that I didn't even realize how sick I was ..... now THAT'S sick!"
" I was so sick that I didn't even realize how sick I was ..... now THAT'S sick!"
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Step children are called step children because they make you work the steps.
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Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again, come, come.” Rumi (No sniggering from the sex addicts)
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hehehehehehehe now I'm stirring
" sober since I woke up this morning "


" sober since I woke up this morning "



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Noels wrote:hehehehehehehe now I'm stirring![]()
" sober since I woke up this morning "![]()
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Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again, come, come.” Rumi (No sniggering from the sex addicts)
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Heard someone say, "My drinking got so bad, I'd suck the alcohol out of a deodorant stick" and "I was a bad drunk but I never drank while driving... Didn't want to spill any of it"
"You can't stop the waves but you can learn to surf." -Jon Kabat-Zinn
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F.E.A.R
F___ Everything And Run
Or
Face Everything And Recover
F___ Everything And Run
Or
Face Everything And Recover
Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again, come, come.” Rumi (No sniggering from the sex addicts)
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I use to say "Ya But" to my sponsor all the time, then I went to college, now I say "however"............
One of my favorites.....The monkeys off my back, but the circus is still in town.
One of my favorites.....The monkeys off my back, but the circus is still in town.
Remember in all we do, it's Progress,not perfection.
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Tosh wrote:"Telling a drunk woman to calm down is a little bit like baptising a cat!"
(Apologies for the sexist line; it's not mine!)
LOL...or asking a werewolf to swim....
Remember in all we do, it's Progress,not perfection.
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I drank so much my blood type is AA