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Non-addicts change their behavior to meet their goals; addicts change their goals to meet their behavior.

If you pick up the first drink or if you give up on working the steps, you are going...


Never punt

If you have been headed in the wrong direction for awhile, you should not give up...


My disease speaks to me in my own voice

Listen to what you are thinking. Is that your addict voice or is that your recovery...


My disease is in the parking lot doing push ups

The nature of the disease of addiction is that it gets stronger even when you are...


Magic magnifying mind causes trouble

Are you fanatasizing about using or do you just feel bad because you feel shocked,...


Look at your eyes in the mirror

"Look at your eyes in the mirror and tell yourself you love yourself no matter what."...


It's not the caboose that kills you, it's the engine that kills you.

Don't pick up the first drink, drug or other addictive behavior. The first one causes...


It's not alcoholwasm; it's alcoholism.

The key to the above saying is to remind us that if we pick up the first one, we...


It is not how much you drug, it is what drugging does to you

"It is not how much you drink, it is what drinking does to you." Big Book p. 443...


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

The person I was will drink again. Therefore, I must change. The first time I heard...