Old Time Recovery


It's not old behavior if I'm still doing it.

If you're looking to have an image in NA, look around at the meetings
you go to and take a look at whom you're trying to impress.

An addict is a person who wants to be held while he's isolating.

Recovery is the leading cause of relapse.

A treatment center is where you go and pay $15,000 to find out that
NA meetings are free.

This is a 'One Day at a Time' program. If you are clean today, you
are tied for first place in NA.

If using is interfering with your work, you're probably a heavy user.
If work is interfering with your using, you're probably an addict.

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 drugs kill millions of brain cells, they never killed the
ones that made me want to use?

If God were small enough to be understood, He wouldn't be big enough
to be God!

If you want to quit using, you are going to have to quit using.

Newcomer: How do I know how many meetings I should attend each week?
Old-timer: Gradually cut back until you get high. Then you'll know.

I would rather go through life clean, believing I am an addict, than
go through life high, trying to
convince myself that I am not an addict.

Resentments are like stray cats: if you don't feed them, they'll go
away.

Before I came into NA, I was dead, but I did not know enough to lie
down.

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; but
whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

Meeting makers make it

We learn the program wont work if we adapt the program to our lives we must adapt our lives to the program

One disease,one sponsor,one program,one fellowship

More will be revealed

When in doubt take the cotton out of your ears and put it in your mouth

Nothing changes if nothing changes

Things that aren’t of a spiritual nature wont fly

Just for today

Meeting makers make it

We learn the program wont work if we adapt the program to our lives we must adapt our lives to the program

One disease,one sponsor,one program,one fellowship

More will be revealed

When in doubt take the cotton out of your ears and put it in your mouth

Nothing changes if nothing changes

Things that aren’t of a spiritual nature wont fly

Just for today

Turn it over

You are a member when you say you are so act like it

What I cant do alone we can do together

Never alone never again

Im still lost but at least I can see where Im going

Anxiety is the price we pay for playing God

If you don’t find recovery at a meeting chances are you didn’t bring it with you

If you do what you always did you will get what you always got

Im allergic to drugs every time I use them I break out in a pair of handcuffs

Feelings aint facts

My responsibility is my ability to respond to what God puts into my life

First things first

Let go let God

What you put into a situation is exactly what you will get out of a situation

If Im not the problem there is no solution

HALTS-Hungry Angry Lonely Tired or Serious

Feelings are like clouds if we refuse to cling onto them

Live in the here and now separate from the problem

Do you want to be right or do you want to be happy

Call your sponsor not your connection it is cheaper

Happiness comes from the inside not the outside

A day at a time a minute at a time or a second at a time

If you are going to pray don’t worry if your going to worry don’t pray

EGO stands for easing God out

Stay away from people,places,things and situations that may lead you to using

My spirituality shows in my attitude …always

Write about your feelings don’t act on them

Ink pens can be unmanageability removers if you write everyday

Speak in a way that reflects the NA way of life

Principles before personalities

Live and let live don’t complicate

If you were that newcomer that got that first hug be there to give that hug to a new comer its your responsibility

Reality is a power greater than ourselves

Show an attitude of gratitude

Share your experience,strength and hope

Love and fear are opposites which is your higher power?

What comes around goes around

An expectation is a premeditated resentment

When you stop treating youself like an ass,those around you will stop

Faith cant be taught…it can only be caught

Procrastination is fear in five syllables

Move your feet first…the feelings will follow

Don’t worry about tomorrow…God is already there

If God brings you to it…he will bring you thru it

Im a very persuasive person,I can persuade myself of anything

Keep your hands in your pants and give the newcomer a chance.

Suicide is a temporary solution to a permanent problem.

The fear of feeling the pain is worse than the pain itself.

Depression is anger turned inward

Before engaging your mouth…make sure your mind is in gear

Are you around recovery or in recovery

Fear =frustration, ego anxiety and resentment

N.U.T.S…not using the steps

Theres still a monkey on my back…Lack of stepwork wakes him up.

Id rather be a resentment than to have one.

If we don’t change…our clean date will.

No one can piss you off without your permission.

To get out of a problem we must spiritually grow thru it

The choices you make today will directly affect tomorrow.

Faith is fear turned inside out.

God is in control…your projector is broken.

When the student is ready the teacher will appear.

Don’t let anyone walk in your head wearing dirty shoes.

If you fail to plan…then you plan to fail.

Fake it till you make it.

Act as if…

Switching from obsession to compulsion is like changing seats on the Titantic.

You don’t have a problem…you just haven’t found a solution you like…

Are you pole vaulting over mouse turds…


Until the pain becomes extreme…change wont happen…

Resentments are like pissing your pants…they affect us more than others…

Don’t tease your disease with people places things and situations.

N.A. has a chair with your asses name on it…

You spot it..you got it…

Anger is fear in a party dress.

If you are eating a nuts sandwich…chances are you ordered it.

If nothing changes…then nothing changes…

Its not happening to you …its happening for you.

A drug is a drug (even sex)

An addict is a sick human being trying to get well, not a bad one trying to be good 

Sex is a perfect solvent: It dissolves marriages, families, & careers

Addictions are the only diseases that try to convince you that you don't have them

An addict is someone whose feet are firmly planted in thin air

An ingrate is someone who bites the hand that feeds him then complains of indigestion

Call your sponsor before you act out

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the ability to overcome it

Cunning, Baffling, Powerful, & Persistent

Death, Insanity or Recovery

Denial is Not a River in Egypt

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you

Do what you did & get what you got

Don't use even if your ass falls off

Don't act out, don't think & go to meetings

Don't give up before the miracle happens

Embrace the journey

Everything happens for a reason

Faith chases away fear

Faith without works is dead

Fake it 'til you make it

Get to the meeting early & go to the meeting after the meeting

God speaks through other people

God will not close one door without opening another

Gratitude, that's the attitude

Do the next right thing

Half measures availed us nothing

Happy, Joyous & Free

He who laughs... lasts

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less

I came, I came to, I came to believe

I like to get a good jump on worrying about something

I need just enough sex to tide me over & then I need MORE

If I woke up today feeling like I did every day when I was acting out, I'd take myself to the emergency room

If you don't want to slip, stay away from slippery places

If you wonder if you're an addict, you probably are

If you don't have a higher power, borrow mine

I'm really a very persuasive person; I can convince myself of anything

Insanity is defined as doing the same thing over & over again, expecting different results

It gets better

It's not easy to find happiness in ourselves & it's impossible to find it elsewhere

It's okay to look back at the past - just don't stare at it

Just for today

Keep coming back, it works if you work it

Keep it simple

Keep your hands in your pants & give the newcomer a chance

Let go & let God

Live for today. Yesterday's history. Tomorrow's a mystery

Live life on life's terms

None of us came here on a winning streak

Ninety meetings in ninety days

Not everything that is faced can be changed but nothing can be changed until it is faced

Once an addict, always an addict

One Day at a Time

Pray daily, God is easier to talk to than most people

Progress, not perfection

Put one foot in front of the other

Recovery is a journey, Not a destination

Resentment is like letting someone live rent-free in your head

Serenity is not freedom from the storm but peace amid the storm

Short version of the Serenity Prayer - "Screw it" 

RECOVERY is not for people who need it, it's for people who want it

Steps 1, 2 & 3: I can't, God can. I think I'll let Him

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem

The easier, softer way is one through twelve

The elevator's broken, take the steps

The fear of feeling the pain is worse than the pain itself

The mind is like a parachute, it works better when it's open

The pain is the arrow coming out, not the arrow going in

This too shall pass

The definition of an addict: an egomaniac with an inferiority complex

Time takes time

Trust God

Try to be grateful & resentful at the same time, you can't serve two masters

Today, "we" have a choice

Turn it over

Two things you have to do to become an old-timer: don't use & don't die

Unity, Service & Recovery

Unless I accept my virtues, I will be overwhelmed with my faults

We have to give it away to keep it

We'll love you until you learn to love yourself

We're only as sick as our secrets

We're not human beings sharing a spiritual experience...but spiritual beings sharing a human experience.

What if there is no God? Believe anyway

When you are in it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut

When we were using, we didn't have relationships, we took prisoners & held hostages

Where do I find recovery? Twelve steps past any lengths

Worry doesn't prevent disaster; it prevents joy

Write a gratitude list & count your blessings

You are right where you are supposed to be

You can always tell an addict, but you can't tell him much

You can't think your way into a new way of living...You have to live your way into a new way of thinking

You reap what you sow