simple QUOTES...
 

i am on twitter...ALOT...lol..

sometimes a simple quote says it all...and OPENS my eyes...
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I generally find that people only call you SELFISH when they cant manipulate you into doing what they want


my 12 step program has help me so much to get my POWER back and a BACK BONE...

I would rather live alone - than wish I did.

Mike :)

In order to discover new lands, you have to be willing to lose sight of the shore.

Confucius: If you are cheated or robbed - that's nothing. As long as you do not remember about it.

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

"Thelma, you get what you settle for" (from the movie Thelma & Louise)

"If you always do what you've always done, you'll get what you got"

"Life begins at the end of your comfort zone"

For addicts, relationships are like throwing Miracle Grow on their character defects.

"He always comes around you when he's down. Why can't he come when he's up sometimes?" From the movie Life is not a Fairy Tale: The Fantasia Barrino Story

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. - Michelangelo

He's not drinking AT you. He's just drinking.

Alcoholism is a devastating, potentially fatal disease. The primary symptom of having it is telling everyone--including yourself--that you are not an alcoholic.
HERBERT L. GRAVITZ & JULIE D. BOWDEN, Recovery: A Guide for Adult Children of Alcoholics

The idea that somehow, someday he will control and enjoy his drinking is the great obsession of every abnormal drinker. The persistence of this illusion is astonishing. Many pursue it into the gates of insanity or death.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, The Big Book

The contrast which exists between the abstemious man and the drunkard is this--the former governs his affairs, but the affairs of the latter govern him.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY, Proverbs

A drunkard is like a whiskey-bottle, all neck and belly and no head.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought

No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. -Ellen Glasgow

Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left. - Hubert Humphrey

"The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated, it is finished when it surrenders."

"Never grow a wishbone, Daughter, where your backbone ought to be."

"Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude."

Thank you!

Let go or get dragged.

A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.- Chris Cleave

4MyBoys

Love these!

I laughed over this one, but she has a point:

Love is an exploding cigar which we willingly smoke. -Lynda Barry

No matter what, me & my God are going to be ok, even better than OK!

"Never let me imagine my satisfaction with life depends on what someone else may do" ODAT in Al-Anon pg 234

"Today is a new day" Chicken Little (from the cartoon movie Chicken Little)

pink hugs (hope, unity, gratitude & serenity)

I love this quote, but coupled with the imagery of the lions I love it even more!!


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Pain is inevitable, but misery is an option.

When you see trouble coming, cross the street.

Stop trying to think your way out of a burning building. If your house is on fire, just get out! Worry about the "why" afterwards (from an old Alanon sponsor, pointing out how I overthink things a lot)

WOW! lots of good ones!

thank you so much for the love and support here...i may not need--as much-- but i do come back to help others for what i have learned and grown from....

sometimes, that quote comes from no where and wow! hits you like a brick...always OPEN minded and OPEN hearted in this place of SR...

i see many have said THANKS (lots that are busy growing...glad to see you once in a BLUE MOON) lol....

~huggles~

Be patient and tough, someday this pain will be useful to you.

I got along without you before I met you and I'll get along without you a long time after you're gone

When someone shows you who they are, belive them

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

I know these are cliche but I use them regardless!

Actions speak louder than words.

You never know.

It was meant to be.

*inappropriate warning*

"When life knocks you down.
Calmly get back up.
Smile.
And politely say,
You hit like a b**ch."

History doesn't repeat itself..........people repeat history.

Someone else here said it first:

"not my monkey, not my circus".

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others....(Wizard to Tin Man when he received his heart)

Ran across these in the last few days & thought I'd add to this thread:

"There are only 2 ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." ~Albert Einstein


"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

omy gosh!

lol...I think i have some new sayings....
"not my monkey, NOT MY CIRCUS"

"Trash shouldn't have feet." ~Haitian proverb

Forgiveness is giving up all hope of a better past.

"Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace." - Dalai Lama

This seems to take a lot of practice, and I'm still practicing!