HeavyJ

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. - Albert Einstein.

I also look at Leonardo Divinci. He was perhaps 500-600 years ahead of his time as a thinker and artist. I wish my mind could think about things like his did instead of thinking about alcohol..

Heavy

parentrecovers

i'm a codependent, so i have to remind myself A LOT to "mind my own business".

HeavyJ

here's one I used to say as a joke, but naw it isn't so funny..

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

Eidetic

Mine is "I build my peace through strength." I got it tattooed on my ankle about a year before I decided to get sober, and I think I must have chosen it for a reason.

IO Storm

"Where there is God, there is no need". Leo Tolstoy

bugsworth

nayster, I liked what you said about "Fake it until you make it." I heard it a lot, seems like hypocrisy to me given it is a program of "honesty". No choirs are going to sing and the seas won't part, but with constant repetition sobriety will become natural once again. Sobriety becomes normal and easy...stay strong!

kj3880

I like "play the tape all the way to through to the end;" Has saved me many times.

And "Hurting people hurt people." Happens a lot in recovery community.

The Serenity Prayer.

And St Francis' "Make me a channel of your peace. Where there is darkness let me bring light...where there is sadness, joy, etc...." I love that prayer. Look up the whole thing if you've never heard it. It's beautiful and peaceful.
KJ

bugsworth

KJ I have to say that "play the tape all the way to through to the end" is the best advice I ever heard at aa. I always romance the drink like a did an old lover...just to the pleasure...never to the pain.

gypsytears

"Don't be a lemming".

IO Storm

Ha..

I just have to do this...just coined a new one...

Flake it till you make it.

FizzyWater

I like to take a light hearted approach to sobriety, not to be confused with a half hearted approach !

hope3

I use to think the same thing until I realized what it really meant....

In step six in the 12 & 12 and also "drop the rock" we are asked to "act as if" our character defects were already gone...I equate this as "fake it till you make it...

Just a thought..

Hope and Love

Hope3

kj3880

I think that "fake it til you make it" can have value, really. I went to meetings before I believed they would work. I just kept going every day at first, no matter how I felt about them. It helped me and I got into the spirit of it after a while.
KJ

jdcsawd

Here are a few that I have heard and like:

I'm just 1 drink away from a drunk
Quitting drinking is the easy part, staying sober is not as easy
I don't have a drinking problem, I have a thinking problem
AA is a simple program for complicated people

IO Storm

Seriously...

I would not be here typing if it were not for (lengthy) periods of "faking it

till I made it"...manic depressive, bipolar whatever the labels I have...

Dual addiction..seriously, it is a way to get through another day sometimes

until I get a grip and "feel" better. "Acting as if" I do feel better also helps.

Didn't mean to make light of another's slogan or post..

But I am flaking it.