While you have a disease, the disease does not have YOU

• Serenity comes when I stop expecting and start accepting.
• Ten out of ten people die, so don't take life too seriously. This has also been said as—we all die, the question is how well we can live!
• HALT: Don't get too...

H ungry,
A ngry,
L onely, or
T ired!!

Here are a few things people have learned about resentment:

• Resentments are like peeing your pants--they don't affect anyone else quite as much as they affect you!
• Expectations are premeditated resentments.
• Expectations are resentments waiting to happen.

Reality based life lessons and sayings nearly everyone talks about:

• Smoking the dope won't help you cope.
• Just for today. This usually is repeated over and over if someone is concerned about drinking or using again…just for today, I’ll stay sober or just for today, I’ll stay clean.
• One day at a time—you can stay clean and sober for one day at a time—don’t worry about tomorrow.  Remember—today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
• Wherever you go- there you are.
• You must be present to win.
• When you feel left out, reach out.
• If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got.

or:

• If you keep doin' what your doin' you'll keep gettin' what your gettin'
• Remember: It's ok to look back but just don't stare.
• I don't thank God for opening the gates of Heaven and letting me in, I thank God for opening the gates of Hell and letting me out
• I came for my drinking and stayed for my thinking 
• Stay away from stinkin’ thinkin’
• I used to be a hopeless dope fiend; today I'm dopeless hope fiend.

And, as Mahatma Ghandi said “We must become the change we want to see”  It is all up to you.  Yes, it’s a huge responsibility, but people have not only said these words, they have LIVED them—the proof is everywhere that addictions can be beaten—but it has to start with you.  After the start, then you’ll find people everywhere willing and able to support you in YOUR decision to stay clean and sober.