12 Step Recovery Quotes

I'm always looking for context in which people tell stories. In "Fight Club" it's these support groups for dying people, and then in "Choke" it's 12-step recovery groups. In one novel it's artists' colonies, in another novel it's a diary form that submariners' wives typically keep so that when their husband comes back from serving on a submarine they have an accounting of their spouse's time. So I'm always looking for, number one, a non-fiction context - because you can tell a more outrageous story if you use a non-fiction form.

Non-mainstream people seem to balk at the idea of 12-step. A lot of us think 12-step recovery means sitting in a church basement full of Republicans and Christians who drink to much.

While in the clinic, I discovered I had problems with concentration, motivation, attitude, and temper. I have found a new way of life through the clinic's program and a 12-step recovery plan.

What you think of me is none of my business.

What goes around, comes around.

Just a reminder, what other people think of you is none of your business.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

If you find a path with no obstacles, it likely leads nowhere.

If you don't know where you're going any road will do

We admitted we were powerless over alcohol-that our lives had become unmanageable. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves would restore us to sanity.

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Get off the cross, we need the wood.

What people think of you is none of your business.

Be careful what you pray for.

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

Formula for failure: Try to please everybody.

If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

If you always do what you did, you'll always get what you got.

Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.

Change happens when the pain of holding on becomes greater than the fear of letting go.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.