• Alcoholism or addiction is the leading cause of relapse.
  • It’s not old behavior if I’m still doing it.
  • If you’re looking to have an image in AA/NA, look around at the meetings you go to and take a look at whom you’re trying to impress.
  • An addict/alcoholic is a person who wants to be held while he’s isolating.
  • This is a ‘ JUST FOR TODAY’ program. If you are clean or sober today, you are tied for first place in NA/AA.
  • If using drugs or drinking alcohol is interfering with your work, you’re probably a heavy user. If work is interfering with your using, you’re probably an addict or alcoholic.
  • I often obsessively pursue feeling good, no matter how bad it makes me feel.
  • When I was new, I didn’t think I had any obsessions until I started thinking about it. Then it was all I could think about.
  • How come if alcohol or drugs kills millions of brain cells, it never killed the ones that made me want to drink or use drugs?
  • If God were small enough to be understood, He wouldn’t be big enough to be God!
  • If you want to quit drinking or using; you are going to have to quit using or drinking.
  • Newcomer: How do I know how many meetings I should attend each week? Old-timer: Gradually cut back until you use or drink. Then you’ll know.
  • I would rather go through life clean and sober, believing I am an addict, than go through life using trying to convince myself that I am not an alcoholic or addict.
  • Resentments are like stray cats: if you don’t feed them, they’ll go Away.
  • I used when I was happy. I used when I was unhappy. Actually, I am a reason to use.
  • You don’t have to be sick to want to get well. But if you don’t want to get well, you are sick.
  • I can’t do His will my way.
  • In order to change the way we feel we need to change the way we act. There is only one way to coast, and that is down hill.
  • The good news is you get your emotions back; the bad news is you get your emotions back.
  • All we ask is that you completely change your attitude as soon as Possible.
  • I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all.
  • Joy isn’t the absence of pain — it’s the presence of God.
  • Stay connected, I need you,

From Simply Sunil by e-mail

Related Reading:

Alcohol, Other Drugs, and Behavior: Psychological Research Perspectives
Drugs, Behavior, and Modern Society, Books a la Carte Edition (7th Edition)
Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol
Wisdom: 365 Thoughts from Indian Masters (Offerings for Humanity)