Aa Meeting Quotes

One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize my underlying problem was not genuine alcoholism, but depression.

A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting.

I see creative-writing classes as some sort of AA meeting. It is more of a support group for people who write than an actual course in which you learn writing skills. This support group is extremely important because there is something very lonely about writing.

I went to one AA meeting and I got asked for an autograph.

I grew up around a lot of aggressive guys. My parents used to take me to AA meetings when I was very young. So I know aggression, I know insanity.

If you're going to drive a Hummer and buy carbon offsets, that's like getting drunk every night and getting into an AA meeting, throwing money in the basket, and leaving.

Have you ever been to an AA meeting? No wonder these people are alcoholics - I've never needed a drink more badly in my life.

The point is, this is what happens when advertising and data collection is the dominant business mode. We are encouraged to be compulsive. It's not that we're terrible addicts who need to go to an AA meeting and get off our gadgets.

Coffee, she'd discovered, was tied to all sorts of memories, different for each person. Sunday mornings, friendly get-togethers, a favorite grandfather long since gone, the AA meeting that saved their life. Coffee meant something to people. Most found their lives were miserable without it. Coffee was a lot like love that way. And because Rachel believed in love, she believed in coffee, too.

During inflation, Goodwill is the gift that keeps on giving.

I want what I want when I want it.

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

When man listens, God speaks; when man obeys, God acts; when man prays, God empowers.

Without memory, there is no healing. Without forgiveness, there is no future.

Anything worth doing is worth doing well.

Creativity is the gift that keeps on giving.

I know why we're here. We're all here because we're not all there.

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

Alcoholics don’t have relationships-they take hostages.

I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.

Think of the solution, not the problem

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.

Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

What goes around, comes around.

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

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

Get off the cross, we need the wood.

What people think of you is none of your business.

Be careful what you pray for.

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.

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.

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