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Those I sponsor have helped me feel loved and needed. More important, they have helped me feel human. Because they reached out to me, I find it easier to ask for help without feeling weak. It’s been a privilege and a joy to give back a small part of the immense treasure I have received from God and from the Al-Anon program of recovery. —Hope for Today p132 Copyright ©️ 2002 by Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters Inc.

The best help I get is from going to meetings. I feel as if I’m getting better all the time. —Living Today in Alateen p132 Copyright ©️ 2001 by Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters Inc.

Today I will spend some time exploring the most intimate relationship I will ever have —my relationship with myself. —Courage to Change p132 Copyright ©️ 1992 by Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters Inc.

It will do nothing constructive for me if I retaliate for injuries I suffer because of the alcoholic. I am not empowered by God to even up the scores and make others pay for what they did to me. I will learn to relax my grip on all the details of my sufferings and allow the solutions to unfold by themselves. —One Day at a Time in Al-Anon p132 Copyright ©️ 1968 by Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters Inc.

This day is too precious to waste by resenting things I can’t change. —Courage to Change p129 Copyright ©️ 1992 by Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters Inc.

The slogans help make me aware of the present moment, where God and I are more likely to meet one another. —Hope for Today p129 Copyright ©️ 2002 by Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters Inc.

Before the program, I thought the alcoholic was just an unkind, unloving, and cruel person who drank too much. Now I understand she has a disease. Only she can do something about it. I’ve been affected, too, and thanks to Alateen, I can do something about changing me. —ALATEEN—a day at a time p129 Copyright ©️ 1983 by Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters Inc.

How can honestly accepting my past help my recovery? —A Little Time for Myself p129 Copyright ©️ 2023 by Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters Inc.

We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us—how we can take it, what we do with it—and that is what really counts in the end. —Joseph Fort Newton, quoted in Courage to Change p126 Copyright ©️ 1992
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Each slogan can be an easy reminder that we do have choices, that we can stop doing things that aren’t working for us, and that we can see things differently. —Alateen Talks Back on Slogans p3, quoted in Hope for Today p126 Copyright ©️ 200 by Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters Inc.

The Alateen program helped me to understand that I can’t rule over alcohol and that trying to do so will make me crazy. —Living Today in Alateen p126 Copyright ©️ 2001 by Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters Inc.

Maybe it’s time I woke up and realized that I can shut off the old self-pity routine, change my attitude, and try to be a bit more cheerful each day. —ALATEEN—a day at a time p126 Copyright ©️ 1983 by Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters Inc.

Whenever I want to take control of a situation that isn’t mine, let me remember that I don’t have to do anything to make the sun shine on me, I just have to receive it. —A Little Time for Myself p126 Copyright ©️ 2023 by Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters Inc.

God has given us the faculties by which we are able to bear what comes to pass without being crushed or depressed thereby. Why then do we sit and moan and groan, blind to the Giver, making no acknowledgment to Him, but giving ourselves to complaints? —Epictetus quoted in One Day at a Time in Al-Anon p126 Copyright ©️ 1968 by Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters Inc.

I use “One Day at a Time” to bring myself back into the moment, which is the only place my Higher Power can really help me anyway. —Hope for Today p125 Copyright ©️ 2002
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My Alateen family is my sunshine on rainy days. —Living Today in Alateen p125 Copyright ©️ 2001
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I see now that I’m not going to Alateen just because I have an alcoholic parent; I’m going because the program can make a big difference in my life. —ALATEEN—a day at a time p125 Copyright ©️ 1983 by Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters Inc.

In a sense, everything that happens to me is a gift from God. —One Day at a Time in Al-Anon p125 Copyright ©️ 1968 by Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters Inc.

Today I recognize that delegation is a spiritual principle—in the most basic sense of the word “spirit,” that of breath. When I fully understand and appreciate delegation, it helps me to breathe better. I relax. I find peace. —A Little Time for Myself p125 Copyright ©️ 2023 by Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters Inc.

We must be entirely honest with somebody if we expect to live long or happily in this world.—
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, pp. 73-74 From the book Daily Reflections. Copyright © 1990 by Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. All rights reserved.

Anything and everything about me can be used for my good. —Courage to Change p129 Copyright ©️ 1992

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How many times do I have to be hurt by self-will before I am willing to seek another way? —Hope for Today p129 Copyright ©️ 2002 by Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters Inc.