Recovery Quotes | 12 Steps to Recovery
For Today --
In thinking about our day we may face indecision. We may not
be able to determine which course to take. Here we ask God
for inspiration, an intuitive thought or a decision. We relax and
take it easy. We don't struggle. We are often surprised how
the right answers come after we have tried this for a while.
-- Alcoholics Anonymous, page…
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For Today --
Just to the extent that we do as we think He would have
us, and humbly rely on Him, does He enable us to match
calamity with serenity.
-- Alcoholics Anonymous, page 68
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We grow through adversity. We need not seek it out;
we can all look back at moments when…
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For Today --
To be doomed to an alcoholic death or to live on a spiritual basis
are not always easy alternatives to face.
-- Alcoholics Anonymous, page 44
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When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the
world, of interacting…
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An exceptional man, he remained bone dry for twenty-five years and
retired at the age of fifty-five, after a successful and happy business
career. Then he fell victim to a belief which practically every alcoholic
has - that his long period of sobriety and self-discipline had qualified
him to drink as other men.
-- Alcoholics Anonymous,…
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For Today --
For a brief moment, I had needed and wanted God. There had been a humble
willingness to have Him with me - and He came. But soon the sense of His
presence had been blotted out by worldly clamors, mostly those within myself.
-- Bill’s Story, Alcoholics Anonymous, pages 12,…
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I was to test mythinking by the new God-consciousness within.
Common sense would thus become uncommon sense.
-- Alcoholics Anonymous, page 13
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We must ever be watching for true, fresh signs of the breaking forth
of the spirit. We…
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We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness.
-- Alcoholics Anonymous, page 83
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Love says "I am everything". Wisdom says "I am nothing".
Between the two, my life flows.
-- Nisargadatta…
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Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change.
-- Alcoholics Anonymous, page 84
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The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves,
but in our attitude towards them.
-- Antoine de…
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For Today --
Cling to the thought that, in God's hands, the dark past is the
greatest possession you have - the key to life and happiness
for others. With it you can avert death and misery for them.
-- Alcoholics Anonymous, page 124
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We are all just tenants…
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For Today --
Until now, our lives have been largely devoted to running from pain and
problems. We fled from them as from a plague. We never wanted to deal
with the fact of suffering. Escape via the bottle was always our solution.
-- Twelve Steps And Twelve Traditions, page…
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For Today --
Yeah, you admit your case is similar, but different. And it’s that difference
that will kill you—trying to lay claim to some unique alcoholic ground is a
sure way not to succeed. Each one of us feels we have a tremendously
unique background. This sense of being different has to be hammered
down and finding power is what helps us do…
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Love and tolerance of others is our code.
-- Alcoholics Anonymous, page 84
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If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.
-- Antonio…
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For Today --
Though we did not like their symptoms and the way these disturbed us,
they, like ourselves, were sick too. We asked God to help us show them
the same tolerance, pity, and patience that we would cheerfully grant
a sick friend. When a person offended we said to ourselves, "This is a
sick man. How can I be helpful to him? God save me from being angry.
Thy will be done."
--…
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For Today –
They had seen miracles, and one was to come to them. They had
visioned the Great Reality - their loving and All Powerful Creator.
-- Alcoholics Anonymous, page 161
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Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart.
Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks…
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For Today --
We learned that if we were seriously disturbed, our first need
was to quiet that disturbance, regardless of who or what we
thought caused it.
-- Twelve Steps And Twelve Traditions, page 47
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It is the habit of faith, when she is praying, to use pleas.
Mere prayer…
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For Today --
There is nothing wrong with our bodily appetites, except when we allow them to
take control. Then they will destroy us. Sane, healthy living requires that we
acknowledge our spiritual needs. When our Higher Power is in control, we work
for emotional and spiritual growth as well as physical satisfaction. Instead of
being divided internally, we are integrated. The enemy within is subdued in the
only way…
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For Today --
With all the earnestness at our command, we beg of you
to be fearless and thorough from the very start. Some of
us have tried to hold on to our old ideas and the result
was nil until we let go absolutely.
-- Alcoholics Anonymous, page…
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For Today --
Were we thinking of ourselves most of the time? Or were we
thinking of what we could do for others, of what we could pack
into the stream of life? But we must be careful not to drift into
worry, remorse or morbidreflection, for that would diminish
our usefulness to others.
-- Alcoholics Anonymous, page…
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For Today --
As individuals and as a fellowship, we shall surely suffer if we cast
the whole job of planning for tomorrow onto a fatuous idea of
Providence. God’s real Providence has endowed us human beings
with a considerable capacity for foresight, and He evidently expects
us to use it. Therefore we must distinguish between wishful fantasy
about a happy tomorrow and the present use…
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For Today --
Our book is meant to be suggestive only.
-- Alcoholics Anonymous, page 164
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The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.
-- Thomas…
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