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Original AA Sayings
Live
and Let Live,
Easy
Does It,
But
for the Grace of God,
Think
Think, Think,
First
Things First
* The above Slogans are the Original Five of A.A. they are arranged
in such a way that when
you read the first word only it reads this way:
Live Easy But Think First
One day at a Time
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Yesterday is history, Tomorrow is a mystery !
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Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
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Today is a gift; that's why it's called the present.
* Just for today.
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TIME: Things I Must Earn.
Resentment
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Resentment is the number one offender.
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Resentment is to Re-feel
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Anger hurts the one who feels it.
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Hurt people, hurt people.
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We beat ourselves with the club of resentment.
* Expectations are premeditated resentments.
* Do you want to be right or do you want
to be happy?
* Don't let anybody live rent free in
your head.
* Bless them, Change me!
* Principles before Personalities.
* Some are sicker than others.
* But for the Grace of God there go I.
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Our code is Love and Tolerance.
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It’s hard to be hateful when you’re grateful.
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It's a we program.
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You can't do it alone, and no one can do it for you.
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Meetings
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Their are no strangers here, only friends who have not met yet.
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Meeting makers make it.
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People who don't go to meetings
don't hear what happens to people who don't go to meetings.
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There are three parts to every meeting,
before, during and after.
* Bring the body around and the mind will follow.
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Keep an open mind.
* Identify don't Compare.
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Utilize don't analyze.
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Come early, Stay late, get involved.
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Listen to the message. not the messenger.
* Learn to Listen, Listen to Learn
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Take what you can use and leave the rest.
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We are all here because we are not all there.
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Seven days without a meeting makes one weak.
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90 meetings in 90 days
* If your to busy to go to meetings, your to busy!
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Meetings are my medicine.
* I need a check up from the neck up.
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Give it 90 days, if you are not completely satisfied
drinking will gladly refund your misery.
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90% of life is showing up.
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Suite up and show up.
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Keep coming back.
* It works if you work it.
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Thinking / Attitude & Gratitude
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When your in your head, your behind enemy lines.
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Your best thinking got you here.
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Stinkin' thinkin' leads to drinking.
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Don't think, Don't drink and get to a meeting.
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Think, Think, Think: Think a drink through.
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No major decisions for the first year.
* A. A. also stands for:
"Attitude Adjustment."
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Keep an attitude of gratitude.
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Gratitude is a verb.
*
The only difference between a stumbling block and
a
stepping stone is our attitude.
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Happiness is not getting what you want,
it is wanting what you have.
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What looks good from afar,
Can be far from good.
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Beyond your wildest dreams.
*
If it wasn't for denial my
life would be shit.
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Change / Action
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Defiance is the outstanding characteristic of many an alcoholic.
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If you keep doin' what your doin'
you'll keep gettin' what your gettin'
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Change you MUST or die you Will.
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You grow or you go!
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Faith without works is dead.
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Courage is fear in action.
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The smallest action is better then the greatest intention.
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H.O.W:
Honesty, Open-mindedness, and
Willingness.
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You got to get real to heal.
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Keep It Simple
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It's a simple program for complicated people.
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Willingness is the key.
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Pray for the willingness to be willing.
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Sobriety must come first.
* The first thing you put before you sobriety,
will be the second thing you lose.
* Stick with the winners.
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When in doubt, DON'T
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Action not distraction
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Don't project.
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Call your sponsor.
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Sponsor: have one, use one, be one.
* You can't learn anything, If you think you know everything.
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They are only suggestions, so do them or die.
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To thine own self be true.
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We are as sick as our secrets.
* If it works don't fix it.
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Act as if.
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Fake it till you make it.
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Progress not perfection.
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Even if you are on the right track,
you'll get run over if you sit around too long.
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You can only coast going down hill.
* Change happens when
the pain of holding on
is greater than the fear of letting go.
HALT:
Don't get too
Hungry,
Angry,
Lonely, or
Tired!!
* Have Character, Don't be One!
* Character is who you are when no one is looking.
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Tough Times
* Just because you are on the right road,
doesn't mean it won't get rocky sometimes.
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Tough times don't last, but tough people do.
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This too shall pass.
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The Hotter the Fire the Stronger the Steel.
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Nothing can happen that God and I can't handle together.
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It's Not the weight that drags you down, it's how you carry it.
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Drop the Rock
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Let Go and Let God.
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You either let go or get dragged.
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Turn it over.
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Pain is born of resistance.
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What we resist, persists.
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Pain is unavoidable, Suffering is optional.
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Worry does not prevent disaster, It prevents joy.
* Serenity comes when I stop expecting and start
accepting.
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Don't give up five minutes before the miracle.
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No matter how far off the path you stumble,
you are only 12 steps away from the solution!
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The Problem / Self -Centered Fear
* If I'm the problem, I can't be the solution.
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Disease: Dis- Ease
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Selfishness - Self-Centeredness
that we think is the root of our trouble.
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Alcohol was but a symptom of the problem.
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Alcoholics are self centered to the extreme.
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The chief activator of our defects has always been self-centered fear.
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I may not be much but I'm all I think about.
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Fear is a darkroom where negatives are developed.
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FEAR: False Expectations Appearing Real
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FEAR : Face Everything And Recover!
* Courage is fear in
action!
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Drinking / Slip
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Sick and tired of being sick and tired.
* You never have to hurt from
alcohol again.
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If you don't want to slip, stay away from slippery places.
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Stay away from people places and things
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You are either moving towards a drink or away from a drink
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A slip begins long before the first drink.
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Slip: Sobriety losing it's priority
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If you don't remember your last drunk,
You haven't had it yet.
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Keep it green.
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One is to many and a thousand is never enough.
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Insanity: doing the same thing over and over
and expecting
different results.
* You could be one
drink away from never being sober again.
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Poor me, poor me, Pour me a drink.
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There are no good reasons to drink, only bad excuses.
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Hit your knees.....not the bottle!
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Pick up the phone, before you pick up a drink!
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Their is nothing so bad that a drink won't make worse!
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This is the easier softer way!
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We suffer from alcohol-ISM, not alcohol-WASM
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We are only one drink away from a drunk.
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It's that first drink that gets you drunk.
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The fist one will set you up, the rest will knock you down.
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If you don't drink you can't get drunk,
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Be careful behind every skirt may be a slip.
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God / Higher Power
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GOD: Group of Drunks
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GOD: Good Orderly Direction
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Came, Came too, Came to believe
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I can't, he can, I think I'll let him.
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God will do for you what you can't do for yourself,
but he won't do what you can.
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Two things to know about God. 1) There is one.
2) You're not it.
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Stop playing God.
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Trust God, clean house, serve others
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Make God your first resource,
not your last resort.
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Do your best and leave the rest to God.
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Let Go and let God..
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Thy will not mine be done.
* Praying is talking
to God,
Meditating is listening.
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Of myself I am nothing.
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A coincidence is God's way of being anonymous.
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There is but one ultimate authority, a loving God,
as he may express himself through our group conscious.
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Be careful what you pray for, you might get it.
*Looking for God
is like a fish looking for water.
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Pride / Humility
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EGO: Edging God Out!
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Humility is the Key to Sobriety.
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Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking about yourself less.
* Humility is when you
tell the truth about yourself.
Humiliation is when
someone else does it for you.
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Steps / Sobriety and Service
* It's easier
to stay sober then to get sober.
* The Steps
are in order for a reason.
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The first three Steps: I can't, He can, I think I'll let
him.
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In AA the elevator doesn't work,
you have to use the steps!
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Half measures availed us nothing
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We may be only one drink away from a drunk,
but we can be 12 steps away from that first drink.
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The Steps protect us from drinking,
the Traditions protect the program from us.
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NUTS: Not Using The Steps
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Life is a dance--when you learn the steps.
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Recovery is an inside
job.
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The Quality of
Sobriety can never be measured by Time.
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Sobriety is God's gift to you,
What you do with it is your gift to God.
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AA is not for people who need it,
It's for people who want it,
* Service keeps you sober.
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Pass it on.
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You have to give it away in order to keep it.
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It's in giving that we receive,
It's in self forgetting that one finds.
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People don't care how much you know,
until they know how much you care.
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If you have the ability,
You have the responsibility.
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We carry the Message not the mess.
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We can't be all things to all people.
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It's a program of attraction rather then promotion.
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Our Singleness of purpose;
To carry the message to the next suffering alcoholic.
I am responsible:
When anyone anywhere reaches out for help, I want
the hand of AA to always be there.
For that I am responsible.
This we owe to AA's future:
To keep our fellowship united.
for on AA unity depends our lives,
and the lives of those to come.
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