50 Quotes About Alcoholics-anonymous

If all of these nuts could just make phone calls it could spread insanity oozing through telephone cables...

You come in all clammed up, defences in depth, alibi-systems long established, delusions full-blown. In order to have a chance of staying sober, or rather of staying dry and becoming sober, you've got to change. Nobody likes to change. What you really want, when you come into hospital, even for the second or third or ninth time, is to stay just who you are and not drink. That's not possible, of course. Jack-Who-Drinks has got to alter into Jack-Who-Does-Not-Drink-And-Likes-It.

The day I became free of alcohol was the day that I fully understood and embraced the truth that I would not be giving anything up by not drinking

...there is a saying used in twelve-step programs and in most treatment centers that "Relapse is part of recovery." It's another dangerous slogan that is based on a myth, and it only gives people permission to relapse because that think that when they do, they are on the road to recovery.

In the one-treatment-fits-all approach, clients sit in group meetings all day and all evening and listen to each other stories. At the end of the first week, everyone in the room knows everyone's story. That goes on for three more weeks, and then most people go home with the same problems they brought with them when they arrived.

are they being serious or are they just pretending to be me?

I give people resentments and wait for them to make amends

Meetings are the Hail Marys of alcoholics. You can do or almost do anything, feel anything, commit any number of non-sober atrocities, as long as you follow with an AA chaser."After I cut off his penis, I sauteed it in rosemary butter and ate it.""But did you go to a meeting afterward?""Yes""I wouldn't worry about it then.

I want what I want when I want it.