Abstinence: Some get it. Some have to do research for the rest of us.
Accept don't expect
Acceptance is the Answer
Acid corrodes the vessel which holds it.
Act as if...
Action overcomes anxiety.
Am I around the program or in the program?
An attitude of gratitude.
Are you eating to live or living to eat?
Came. Came to. Came to believe.
Change from the inside out
Clouds have linings, problems have endings.
Do the next, right thing.
Don't borrow from tomorrow.
Don't hurry. Don't worry. Don't compare.
Easy Does It
Easy Does It but Do It
Even if your ass falls off don't overeat!
Expect a miracle.
Expectations are premeditated resentments.
Face your stuff, don't stuff your face.
Fake it till you make it.
Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered it and no one was there.
First Things First
Food is fuel, it's not your friend.
Food thoughts are just thoughts. You don't have to act on them.
Forgiveness is letting go of a better past.
God grows tomatoes. He doesn't pull weeds.
Going to meetings and not working the steps is like winning the lottery and not cashing the ticket.
Guilt may be pride in reverse.
Half measures availed us nothing.
Happiness comes from within.
Help is only a phone call away.
Holding a resentment is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.
Honesty is the only policy
Hurry slowly.
I can't. God can. I think I'll let God.
I need to use my HP as a steering wheel instead of a spare tire.
If it works don't fix it.
If you have one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow you are pissing on today.
If you slip, get up.
Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over expecting different results.
Just For Today
Keep coming back.
Keep your recovery first to make it last.
Keep your side of the street clean.
Life is what happens while you are making other plans.
Listen and Learn
Live and let live
Living in the Solution
Meeting makers make it.
Minds are like parachutes. They don't work unless they are open.
My way didn't work.
Name them, claim them, dump them.
Nothing changes if nothing changes.
OA is not for people who need it. It is only for people who want it.
OA Mafia: Once you are in, you know too much to leave!
One compulsive bite it too many and 100 are not enough.
One Step at a Time
Pass it on.
Power through powerlessness
Powerful, Cunning, Baffling
Practice. Practice. Practice.
Progress not perfection
Progress rather than perfection.
Repetition is nature's only form of permanence.
Sacred cows make the best hamburger.
Service is slimming.
Service is the rent I pay for the space I occupy in the program.
Since I can't think my way into right acting, I have to act my way into right thinking.
Since my disease never took a day off, neither can my program of recovery.
Sponsors carry the message, not the person.
Stay out of slippery places.
Step 1 adds years to your life. Steps 2-12 add life to your years.
Step by step, day by day.
The 12 Steps Short Version: Trust God, clean house, help others, pray.
The disease is physical. The cause is emotional. The cure is spiritual.
The elevator is broken. Use the steps.
The more we uncover, the more we recover.
The path to recovery may get narrow but the horizons get wider.
The steps are a road, not a resting place.
There for the grace of God go I.
There is no situation so bad that a little extra food can't make it worse.
This too shall pass.
Turn fear into faith.
Vision without action is called hallucination.
Wear life looser and it gets comfortable much sooner.
What other people think of me is none of my business.
When I first came into this program people told me "IT gets better." What they didn't tell me was that I was IT.
Willing to Go to Any Lengths
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.
You can only change yourself.
You can't heal what you don't feel.
You didn't cause it. You can't control it. You can't cure it.
OA works for people who believe in God.
OA works for people who don't believe in God.
OA never works for people who believe they are God.
