A growing collection of nuggets heard in meetings and online.
- I pray for your health and happiness, you S.O.B. (Prayer for someone we resent.)
- I admitted I am powerless over alcohol, no matter who it is in.
- What is the one thing you cannot tell a drunk? Anything.
- The suggestions are all free. The only ones you pay for are the ones you don’t take.
- When you are wrong, promptly admit it. When you are right, shut up.
- The Steps keep me from suicide. The Traditions keep me from homicide.
- GEMS = Gratitude, Exercise, Meditation, Sleep
- Al-Anon won’t get you in to heaven… but it will get you out of hell.
- I can trust myself to take care of myself.
- Denial is the shock-absorber of the soul.
- Your mind is like your bed. You have to make it up every day, and be careful who you let in it.
- Feelings are like children. You don’t put them in the trunk, and you don’t let them drive the car.
- FEAR = Forgetting Everything’s All Right
- I don’t feel so broken like I did before committing to this program. Maybe a little cracked still but definitely not broken.
- If I don’t want someone to get my goat, I won’t tell them where it is tied up!
- Forgiveness is something I do for myself, i. e. let go of the resentment. But trust is something that needs to be earned from me on a day to day basis.
- There is an invisible web under us to catch us when we fall, and we don’t realize it until we land in it.
If you have to fight monsters, don’t become a monster in the process.
Faith is hope with a good track record.
Don’t believe everything you think.
I go to meetings so I don’t have to think alone.
Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every moment with love, grace and gratitude.
The only tools you have are compassion and boundaries. Wield them fiercely.
My head would destroy me if it didn’t need me for transportation.
If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it.
The slogans are “condensed Al-Anon in capsule form.”
Self-care is not vanity, it’s sanity.
See also: Aphorisms