God Shot

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Why drink today when you can put it off until tomorrow?

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: You have to be willing to participate in your own recovery

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: A lot of people have died wanting to get sober

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: The great paradox of spirituality is that you've got to give it away to keep it

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: This program is a marriage of hope and action, and it has to be both

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: I Don't need your help today. Love, God

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: In the first year of sobriety, Don't change anything except your playmates, playthings, and playgrounds

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Stinkin' thinkin' leads to drinkin'

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Drinkin' leads to stinkin' thinkin'

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Slippery people and slippery places lead to slips

101 Common Cliches: A problem shared is a problem cut in half.

101 Common Cliches: Ask for help.

101 Common Cliches: Better them than me.

101 Common Cliches: Changing addictions is like switching seats on the Titanic.

101 Common Cliches: Do the footwork.

101 Common Cliches: Do the next right thing.

101 Common Cliches: Doing the deal.

101 Common Cliches: Don't call me after you drink; call me before you drink.

101 Common Cliches: Don't leave before the miracle happens.

Sober Cards: God is never late.

Sober Cards: Thy will not mine, be done.

Sober Cards: Stay sober for yourself.

Sober Cards: Resting on our laurels, we are in trouble if we do.

Sober Cards: If you're feeling guilty, you probably are.

Sober Cards: Start missing meetings and you start missing drinks.

Sober Cards: Character is how we act when no one is watching.

Sober Cards: Sobriety is a journey, not a destination.

Sober Cards: Be part of the solution, not the problem.

Sober Cards: Let go and let God.

Sober Cards: Live in the now, look for the now, accept the good.

Big Book Cards: "When the spiritual malady is overcome, we straighten out mentally and physically." - Page 64

Big Book Cards: "If we were to live, we had to be free of anger." - Page 66

Big Book Cards: "People of faith have a logical idea of what life is all about." - Page 49

Big Book Cards: "The first requirement is that we be convinced that any life run on self-will can hardly be a success." - Page 60

Big Book Cards: "Physicians who are familiar with alcoholism agree there is no such thing as making a normal drinker out of an alcoholic." - Page 31

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: If you Don't do anything to make it better, it will get worse

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: I may be mad at someone, but I'm not going to get drunk at that person

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: What can I learn from this?

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Most of the things that irritate me today won't be important enough to remember tomorrow

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Stop looking for the bad news after the good news

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Sometime you just have to wait

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: I lived to get drunk and got drunk to live

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: What can you do to take the place of drinking? Anything in the world except drink

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: It hasn't been a bad day just because a few things haven't gone my way

101 Common Cliches: Trust the process.

101 Common Cliches: Turn it over.

101 Common Cliches: Wait a year.

101 Common Cliches: We are not bad people trying to get good, we are sick people trying to get well.

101 Common Cliches: We don't trip over mountains; we trip over molehills.

101 Common Cliches: We get sick by ourselves; we get well together.

101 Common Cliches: We have a disease that tells us; we don't have a disease.

101 Common Cliches: Whatever you put in front of your sobriety is the first thing you're going to lose.

101 Common Cliches: When all else fails, working with another alcoholic saves the day.

101 Common Cliches: When you get hit by a train, it's not the caboose that kills you.

101 Common Cliches: Where's your higher power?

Additional Cliches: We here at AA have good news for you and bad news. The good news is you never have to drink again. The bad news is that we're your new friends.

Additional Cliches: What we learn in AA meetings is bread for daily life, not cake for special occasions.

Additional Cliches: When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

Additional Cliches: You are either moving away from a drink or towards one.

Additional Cliches: You are exactly where you are supposed to be.

Additional Cliches: You're only as sick as your secrets.

Additional Cliches: You can't take this program cafeteria style.

Additional Cliches: You must have the courage to change.

Big Book Cards: "Our ideas did not work. But the God idea did." - page 52

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: One day at a time.

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: You've got to give time, time.

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Insanity: Doing exactly the same thing over and over, expecting different results.

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: It's a good meeting if no one gets drunk in the room during the meeting.

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: H.A.L.T. - Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired.

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: The length of time away from a drink is not equal to the distance from a drink.

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: You have to be able to live with yourself before you can live with another person.

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: It's not what happens to you but how you perceive it.

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Fourth Step: Fears, resentments, self-pities, guilts, hatreds, and whys

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: This too shall pass

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Happiness is an inside job

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Desparation, inspiration, perspiration

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Keep it simple

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Turn your will and your life over to God

101 Common Cliches: Don't let other people's words define you.

101 Common Cliches: Don't let people rent space in your head.

101 Common Cliches: Don't think, don't drink, and go to meetings.

101 Common Cliches: Easy does it.

101 Common Cliches: F.E.A.R. - False Evidence Appearing Real

Sober Cards: Love and tolerance is our code.

Sober Cards: Easy does it.

Sober Cards: Don't be bitter, be better.

Sober Cards: Remember, it's progress not perfection.

Sober Cards: One drink is too many and a thousand is not enough.

Sober Cards: Stick with the winners.

Sober Cards: If I could drink like other people I would drink all the time.

Sober Cards: idle hands are the devil's playground.

Sober Cards: First things first.

Additional Cliches: If it doesn't apply, let it fly.

Additional Cliches: If you ask an alcoholic what time it is, he'll try to build you a clock.

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

Additional Cliches: If you keep doing what you did you'll keep getting what you got.

Additional Cliches: If you put as much effort into AA as you did in your drinking, you'll do well.

Additional Cliches: If you're in hell, there's hope, because much of heaven is only 12 steps away.

Additional Cliches: I'm an alcoholic, I can fuck up a sandwich.

Additional Cliches: Is that odd? Or is that God?

Additional Cliches: It gets better.

Additional Cliches: It is when you act as if you have faith that you begin to have it.

Additional Cliches: It's not what I know that keeps me sober, it's what I do.

Additional Cliches: I've been sober a few 24 hours.

Additional Cliches: Meetings: it's a lot of entertainment for a buck.

Additional Cliches: More will be revealed.

Additional Cliches: My best friend became my worst enemy.

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Don't drink even if your rear falls off; put it in a bag and bring it to the meeting

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: First things first

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: God never closes a door without also opening a window

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Let go and let God

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: How important is it?

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Coincedence: God performs a little miracle and wishes to remain anonymous

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Utilise, Don't analyse

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: An AA member is just a drunk with a conscience

101 Common Cliches: I have problems in areas where I used to not have any areas.

101 Common Cliches: I was sick and tired of being sick and tired.

101 Common Cliches: I was tired of the ass-kicking machine.

101 Common Cliches: If I could drink like a normal person, I'd drink everyday.

101 Common Cliches: If nothing changes, nothing changes.

101 Common Cliches: If you are not completely satisfied with AA, your misery will be promptly refunded.

101 Common Cliches: If you don't do a fourth, you'll probably drink a fifth.

101 Common Cliches: If you don't drink, you won't get drunk.

Big Book Cards: "We relax and take it easy. We don't struggle." - Page 86

Big Book Cards: "First things first. Live and let live. Easy does it." - Page 135

Big Book Cards: "Actually we were fooling ourselves, for deep down in every man, woman, and child, is the fundamental idea of God." - Page 55

Big Book Cards: "Most alcoholics owe money. We do not dodge our creditors." - Page 78

Big Book Cards: "Some of us have tried to hold on to our old ideas and the result was nil until we let go absolutely." - Page 58

Big Book Cards: "If sex is very troublesome, we throw ourselves the harder into helping others. We think of their needs and work for them. This takes us out of ourselves." - Page 70

Big Book Cards: "Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path" - Page 58

Additional Cliches: God will never give you more than you can handle.

Additional Cliches: Guiness Heart: Black and Bitter.

Additional Cliches: H.A.L.T - Be careful when you're Hungry, Angry, Lonely, or Tired.

Additional Cliches: Happy Horse Shit.

Additional Cliches: Having resentments is like taking poison and hoping the other person dies.

Additional Cliches: I ain't much, but I'm all I think about.

Additional Cliches: I am powerless, not helpless.

Additional Cliches: I am the black sheep of the family and when I came to AA, I found the rest of my herd.

Additional Cliches: I came to AA to get the monkey off my back. Now, the circus is still in town, but I am no longer the ringmaster, I'm just one of the clowns.

Additional Cliches: I didn't get sober to be miserable.

101 Common Cliches: You don't go to a whorehouse to get a ham sandwich.

101 Common Cliches: You have to give it away to keep it.

101 Common Cliches: Your best thinking got you here.

101 Common Cliches: You're on a pink cloud.

Sober Cards: Live and let live.

Sober Cards: Keep recovery first to make it your last.

Sober Cards: Don't let people rent space in your head.

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: There is nothing wrong with your life that the removal of alcohol can't help but make better

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: When tempted, Don't drink, say a prayer, and go to a meeting

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: God, please help me

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: I came. I came to. I came to believe

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Please God first, yourself second, and everyone else third

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: It's not my luck that needs changing, it is I

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: When you join AA you become a member of the "Society of the Second Chance"

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: When you hold on to the past with one hand and grab at the future with the other, you have nothing with which you can hold on to today

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: You cannot get ahead until you learn to be here

101 Common Cliches: Fake it 'till you make it.

101 Common Cliches: Feeling comfortable in your own skin.

101 Common Cliches: First things first.

101 Common Cliches: Get out of yourself.

101 Common Cliches: G.O.D. - Good Orderly Direction.

101 Common Cliches: G.O.D. - Group of Drunks.

Sober Cards: Don't quit before the miracle happens.

Sober Cards: We are only as sick as our secrets.

Sober Cards: Willingness is the key.

Sober Cards: Serenity isn't freedom from the storm. It's peace within the storm.

Sober Cards: More will be revealed.

Sober Cards: This too shall pass.

Sober Cards: Do the next right thing.

Sober Cards: Peace and serenity through surrender.

Sober Cards: Don't borrow trouble from tomorrow.

Sober Cards: Don't take everything so personally.

Additional Cliches: Addicts and Alcohilics don't have relationships, we take hostages.

Additional Cliches: Alcoholism is incurable, progressive, and fatal.

Additional Cliches: All you need to start your own AA meeting is a resentment and a coffee pot.

Additional Cliches: Anger is one letter away from danger.

Additional Cliches: Be nice to the newcomers, someday one may be your sponsor.

Additional Cliches: Before I came to AA, I was dying for a drink.

Big Book Cards: "Resentment is the number one offender. It destroys more alcoholics than anything else." - Page 64

Big Book Cards: "Lack of power that was our dilemma. We had to find a power by which we could live, and it had to be a power greater than ourselves." - Page 45

Big Book Cards: "We had a new employer. Being all powerful, He provided what we needed, if we kept close to Him and performed His work well." - Page 63

Big Book Cards: "The age of miracles is still with us. Our own recovery proves that!" - Page 153

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Ninety meetings in ninety days

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: There's nothing wrong with pursuing happiness, just Don't get angry if it eludes you

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Do the rowing and let God do the steering

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Alcohol tried to murder my soul

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Treat your mind like a bad neighbourhood -- Don't go there alone

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Ten out of ten people die, so Don't take life so seriously

101 Common Cliches: If you don't get this program, stick around until it gets you.

101 Common Cliches: If you don't have a sponsor, your addiction will gladly sponsor you.

101 Common Cliches: If you don't remember your last drunk, you haven't had it yet.

101 Common Cliches: If you hang out in a barbershop, you might just gey a haircut.

101 Common Cliches: If you think you don't have a lower bottom, remember there's always a trap door.

101 Common Cliches: If you're neck deep in shit, it's okay to piss your pants.

Sober Cards: KISS: Keep It Simple Stupid.

Sober Cards: To thine own self be true.

Sober Cards: Before you say I can't, say I'll try.

Sober Cards: Trying to pray is praying.

Sober Cards: Some things are true whether you believe them or not.

Sober Cards: One hour at a time, one day at a time, one step at a time.

Additional Cliches: Don't you know who I think I am.

Additional Cliches: E.G.O. - Edging God Out.

Additional Cliches: Expectations are resentments just waiting to happen or the road to resentments is paved with expectations.

Additional Cliches: Faith without works is dead.

Additional Cliches: Fear without works is dead.

Additional Cliches: Geographical cures don't work, because wherever you go you're still there.

Big Book Cards: "The tremendous fact for every one of us is that we have discovered a common solution." - Page 17

Big Book Cards: "The delusion that we are like other people, or presently may be, has to be smashed." - Page 30

Big Book Cards: "And we have ceased fighting anything or anyone - even alcohol." - Page 84

Big Book Cards: "If we skip this vital step, we may not overcome drinking." - Page 72

Big Book Cards: "Our liquor was but a symptom. So we had to get down to causes and conditions." - Page 64

Big Book Cards: "As we go through the day we pause, when agitated or doubtful, and ask for the right thought or action." - Page 87

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Only three things happen to alcoholics who Don't stop drinking: They get screwed up, locked up, or covered up

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: You have to love yourself before you can love yourself

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: When I have a dollar more than what I need, I'm rich. Before I quit drinking, I was always a dollar short

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: You Don't die when you get ready, you die when God gets ready

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Stand for something or you'll fall for anything

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Your actions are so loud I can't hear what you're saying

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Yesterday is so far in the past I can't see it; tomorrow is too distant in the future to be seen. So I'll take a good look at what I can see - today

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Keep coming back

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Live like this is the last day of your life

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: S.L.I.P. - Sobriety Loses Its Priority

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: The best fringe benefit of being in AA is that you never have to be alone again

101 Common Cliches: Have an attitude of gratitude.

101 Common Cliches: H.O.W - Honest, Open, and Willing.

101 Common Cliches: Ican't; He can; I think I'll let him.

101 Common Cliches: In sobriety, there are good times and growth times.

101 Common Cliches: Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results.

101 Common Cliches: I doesn't matter what you think, or what you feel; it matters what you do.

101 Common Cliches: It takes what it takes.

Sober Cards: Just don't drink.

Sober Cards: When one door closes, another one opens.

Additional Cliches: AA didn't open the Gates of Heaven and let me in, it opened up the Gates of Hell and let me out.

Additional Cliches: AA is the easier softer way.

Additional Cliches: A drug is a drug is a drug.

Additional Cliches: A moment of clarity.

101 Common Cliches: I didn't get into trouble every time I drank; but every time I got in trouble I was drinking.

Additional Cliches: If I wasn't in here, I'd be out there.

Additional Cliches: My drinking went from Park Avenue to park bench.

Additional Cliches: My serenity is indirectly proportional to my expectations.

Additional Cliches: My sobriety has a shelf life of about 24 hours.

Additional Cliches: Nothing happens in God's world by mistake.

Additional Cliches: Nothing is so bad that a drink won't make it worse.

Additional Cliches: N.U.T.S. - Not Using The Steps.

Big Book Cards: "We have entered the world of the Spirit. Our next function is to grow in understanding and effectiveness." - Page 84

Big Book Cards: "See to it that your relationship with Him is right, and great events will come to pass for you and countless others." - Page 164

Big Book Cards: "What we really have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition." - Page 85

Big Book Cards: "We must be entirely honest with somebody if we expect to live long or happily in this world." - Page 73

Big Book Cards: "Our real purpose is to fit ourselves to be maximum service to God and the people about us." - Page 77

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Wear the world as a loose garment

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Give yourself a little success every day

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Only one in ten alcoholics die sober. Beat the odds

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: I am responsible

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: But for the grace of God..

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Be profound, funny, or quiet

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Trust God, clean house, and help others

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: God doesn't make mistakes

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Any excuse for a drink is as good as any excuse for a drink

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: When tragic things begin to seem funny, health has begun

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Easy does it

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: After you talk in a meeting, listen to hear if you said anything

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: We're all doing the best we can

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Easy does it, but do it

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: I may have a drink tomorrow, but not today

101 Common Cliches: God doesn't give is what we want; God gives us what we need.

101 Common Cliches: Half measures availed us nothing.

101 Common Cliches: It works if you work it.

101 Common Cliches: It's easier to put on slippers than carpet the world.

101 Common Cliches: It's no fun having a belly full of alcohol, if you have a head full of AA.

101 Common Cliches: Keep coming back.

101 Common Cliches: Keep it simple.

Sober Cards: Nothing changes if nothing changes.

Sober Cards: We either make ourselves miserable or make ourselves stronger, the amount of work is the same.

Sober Cards: Faith without works is dead.

Sober Cards: It gets real, it gets different, it gets real different.

Sober Cards: One day at a time.

Sober Cards: Keep coming back. It works if you work it.

Additional Cliches: Bring the body and the mind will follow.

Additional Cliches: Coincendences are God's way of staying Anonymous.

Additional Cliches: Don't be surprised if you relapse, be surprised if you don't.

Additional Cliches: Gift of desperation.

Additional Cliches: God does not move mountains, but you have to bring the shovel to help.

Additional Cliches: God doesn't have any grand kids.

Additional Cliches: God is never late.

Big Book Cards: "But we aren't a glum lot. If newcomers could see no joy or fun in our existence, they wouldn't want it. We absolutely insist on enjoying life." - Page 132

Big Book Cards: "We learned that we had to fully concede to our innermost selves that we were alcoholics. This is the first step in recovery." - Page 30

Big Book Cards: "Love and tolerance of others is our code" - Page 84

Big Book Cards: "If you are seriously alcoholic as we were, we believe there is no middle-of-the-road solution" - Page 25

Big Book Cards: "As soon as a man can say that he does believe, or is willing to believe, we emphatically assure him that he is on his way." - Page 47

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Fake it till you make it

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Put your desire chip under your tongue; when it melts, you can have a drink

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: For an alcoholic, one drink is one too many - one thousand is not enough

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Never underestimate the power of prayer or the passage of time

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Meeting makers make it

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: No one can make you take a drink, and no one can make you stop

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: It works if you work it

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Today is the yesterday you'll worry about tomorrow

101 Common Cliches: Let go and let God.

101 Common Cliches: Live and let Live.

101 Common Cliches: Look for the similarities, not at the differences.

101 Common Cliches: Meeting makers make it.

101 Common Cliches: My disease wants to kill me.

101 Common Cliches: Ninety in ninety.

Sober Cards: Play the tape out.

Sober Cards: Instead of saying I have to; say, 'I get to.'

Sober Cards: Rule#62: Don't take yourself too damn seriously.

Sober Cards: Sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly.

Sober Cards: What is the loving and giving action I can do, right here and now in this situation.

Additional Cliches: Act as if.

Additional Cliches: Being humble isn't that we think less of ourselves, it's that we think of ourselves less.

Additional Cliches: I didn't just experiment with drugs and alcohol; I was into advanced research and development.

Additional Cliches: I do not always know what God's will is for me, but I usually know what it's not.

Additional Cliches: I have to stop telling my God how big my problems are and start telling my problems how big my God is.

Additional Cliches: I know two things about God: There is one and I ain't him.

Additional Cliches: I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I'm not where I was.

Big Book Cards: "There is a solution." - Page 25

Big Book Cards: "Half measures availed us nothing. We stood at the turning point. We asked His protection and care with complete abandon." - Page 59

Big Book Cards: "Above everything, we alcoholics must be rid of this selfishness. We must, or it kills us! God makes that possible." - Page 62

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: AA is a simple program for complicated people

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: AA is not where you wind up, It's where you start over

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Our sickness is between our ears

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: It takes time

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: You aren't going to get it by Thursday

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: An empty can makes the most noise

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Every AA meeting is a payment on your sobriety

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Alcoholics have three choices: die, go nuts, or get sober

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: God can't hand you anything new until you let go of what you're holding

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Carry your strength, hope, and experience to those people you find attractive and, especially, to those you Don't

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: When I think I'm out of control, I'm most out of control

101 Common Cliches: No 13th stepping.

101 Common Cliches: No one comes into AA on a winning streak.

101 Common Cliches: One day at a time.

101 Common Cliches: One is too many and a thousand is not enough.

101 Common Cliches: Play the tape all the way through.

101 Common Cliches: Poor me, poor me, pour me another drink.

101 Common Cliches: Relapse is a process, not an event.

101 Common Cliches: Stark raving sober.

101 Common Cliches: Stay away from wet faces and wet places.

Additional Cliches: I need to treat you, today, like I want God to treat me, tomorrow.

Additional Cliches: I want, what I want, when I want it.

Additional Cliches: I was getting worse faster than I could lower my standards.

Additional Cliches: I will always have another drunk in me, but I am not sure there is another recovery.

Additional Cliches: I'd rather live sober in AA wondering if I'm an alcoholic, than die drunk trying to prove I'm not.

Big Book Cards: "It is easy to let up on the spiritual program of action and rest on our laurels. We are headed for trouble if we do, for alcohol is a subtle foe." - Page 85

Big Book Cards: "We have found much of heaven and we have been rocketed into a fourth dimension of existence of which we had dreamed." - Page 25

Big Book Cards: "The idea that somehow, someday he will control his drinking is the great obsession of every abnormal drinker." - Page 30

Big Book Cards: "Therefore, the main problem of the alcoholic centers in the mind, rather than the body." - Page 23

Big Book Cards: "We found the Great Reality deep down within us. In the last analysis it is only there that He may be found." - Page 55

Big Book Cards: "Here we ask God for inspiration, an intuitive thought or a decision." - Page 86

Big Book Cards: "...we find that our thinking will, as time passes, be more on the plane of inspiration. We come to rely upon it." - Page 87

Big Book Cards: "We trust infinite God rather than our finite selves." - Page 68

Big Book Cards: "To us, the Realm of Spirit is broad, roomy, all inclusive; never exclusive or forbidding to those who earnestly seek." - Page 46

Big Book Cards: "Do not be discouraged. No one among us has been able to maintain anything like perfect adherence to these principles." - Page 60

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: There are many ways to cross the river - what matters is that you cross sober

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: I learning to be sober doesn't feel awkward, you're not making progress

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: If you Don't change, you Don't grow. And if you Don't grow, you Don't go

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Alcoholics are self-adoring egotists who can't stand their own image

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: To stay sober, you must make the abnormal normal, and the normal abnormal

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: If you keep bringing your body, your mind will follow

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Alcoholism is the high cost of low living

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: When confronted with a dilemma, ask yourself, What would God do?

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: If you think you have humility, you Don't

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: If others did the things to us that we as alcoholics do to ourselves, we'd kill them

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: AA is not a place to go to save your soul but if you have an open mind, you may save your skin

101 Common Cliches: Stick with the winners.

101 Common Cliches: Stinkin' Thinkin'.

101 Common Cliches: Surrender to win.

101 Common Cliches: Take suggestions.

101 Common Cliches: Take the cotton wool out of your ears and put it in your mouth.

101 Common Cliches: The first step is the only one you have to work perfectly.

101 Common Cliches: There is only one thing you have to change - and that's everything.

101 Common Cliches: They call it Alcohol-'ism', not Alcohol-'wasm'.

101 Common Cliches: This disease is bigger than me, but it's not bigger than us.

101 Common Cliches: This is a disease, not a disgrace.

101 Common Cliches: This is a program for people who want it, not for people who need it.

101 Common Cliches: This is a selfish program.

101 Common Cliches: This is a simple program for complicated people.

101 Common Cliches: This is a 'we' program.

101 Common Cliches: This program is simple, not easy.

101 Common Cliches: This too shall pass.

101 Common Cliches: While you work on recovery, your addiction is doing push ups.

101 Common Cliches: Work the steps.

101 Common Cliches: You can carry the message; you can't carry the alcoholic.

101 Common Cliches: You can take a bath in champagne as long as you don't drink it.

101 Common Cliches: You can't save your face and your ass at the same time.

101 Common Cliches: You can't think your way into better living, but you can live your way into better thinking.

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: God is spelled G-O-D, not D-O-G, so Don't get confused and tell him to fetch

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: I came to AA because things began to add up, and not add up

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Meetings are really boring when I Don't go

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: No one ever went to jail for drinking too much coffee

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: You get home on the ocean of your own tears

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: I didn't know I wanted to quit drinking until I tried to quit drinking

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: I drank for just two reasons: to feel good when I felt bad and to feel better when I felt good

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Anybody can stop drinking - just hit a cop

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: I didn't come to AA, because I was afraid it would work

Additional Cliches: If all else fails - follow directions.

Additional Cliches: If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it.

Additional Cliches: If God is your co-pilot, you're sitting in the wrong seat.

Additional Cliches: If I don't continually change, my sobriety date will.

Additional Cliches: Pray for willingness.

Additional Cliches: Principles before personalities.

Additional Cliches: Religion is for people who do not want to go to hell; Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

Additional Cliches: Remember, it's okay to look back, just don't stare.

Additional Cliches: Seven days without a meeting makes one weak.

Additional Cliches: Sobriety and working the steps gives us what alcohol promised, but failed to deliver.

Additional Cliches: Some of us are so successful, once we sober up, we turn out to be almost as good as we used to think we were when we were drinking.

Additional Cliches: Sorrow looks back; Worry looks ahead; Faith looks up.

Additional Cliches: S.P.O.N.S.O.R. - Sober Person Offering Newcomers Suggestions On Recovery.

Additional Cliches: Take what you can use and leave the rest.

Additional Cliches: The road to a 4th Step is paved with resentments.

Additional Cliches: There is no chemical solution to a spiritual problem.

Additional Cliches: There is no such thing as a bad meeting.

Additional Cliches: There is still a monkey on my back, he's just sleeping.

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Courage is fear that has said its prayers

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: My mind is not a good place to be

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Do not criticise, condemn, or complain

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Don't criticise others; they are just doing what we would be doing under similar circumstances

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Why are you not happy with where you are? Is it not exactly where you placed yourself?

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: I'm not where I want to be, but thank God I'm not where I was

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Doing things the way I thought they should be done is what got me here

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: In order to stay sober, I've got to be willing to be part of my own life

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: There are no victims, just volunteers

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: I didn't want to stop drinking, just to stop hurting

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Sometimes It's tough to know God's will for me; It's not posted on billboards

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: When I was drinking, individual responsibility was not my strong suit

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: When you pray, just talk to God; when you meditate, just listen

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: When I first came to the program, members said, "Let us love you until you can love yourself."

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: When I first came, they said, "It will get better." I discovered the "it" was me

Additional Cliches: Those who anger us the most are our greatest teachers.

Additional Cliches: TIME = Things I Must Earn.

Additional Cliches: We are egomaniacs with low self-esteem.

Additional Cliches: We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Additional Cliches: We don't get sober in pairs.

Additional Cliches: Aka Under Every Dress there's a slip.

Additional Cliches: We grow through attraction not promotion.

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: What goes around comes around, if you stick around

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Act as if

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Change is a process, not an event

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Don't drink even if your rear is on fire

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: You can't get mugged in a dark alley if you Don't walk in dark alleys

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Wherever you go, there you are

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: If you truly understand someone, you will have no need to forgive that person

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: I'm not impatient - I just want everything to change right away

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: It took every drink I took to get here

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: It's amazing how this program works when I get out of the way

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Happiness is a by-product of doing the right thing

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Perhaps the only purpose of my sobriety is to stop hurting myself and others

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Ego: The sum total of false ideas about myself

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Check your motives

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: My favourite prayer has only one word: Help

Additional Cliches: God wants us to go to meetings, so He can give us our daily messages.

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: When you're afraid, pick up the five-hundred-pound telephone and call someone

My Mind Is Out To Get Me: Platitudes can help with your attitudes