These are some saying that have been heard at OA meetings and other 12-step program meetings for many years:
One day at a time
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First Things First
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Act as if
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If it works, don't fix it
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Easy Does It
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Let go and let God
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Keep coming back, it works if you work it
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Live and Let Live
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Cultivate an attitude of Gratitude
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This, too, shall pass
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Don't leave before the miracle happens.
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Expect miracles
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Coincidence is an 11 letter word for God
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You're as sick as your secrets
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Abstinence is the most important thing in my life. |
Don’t take that first bite |
If I don’t feel close to God, who moved? | Happy joyous and free |
Expectations are premeditated resentments!
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Relapse is NOT a requirement
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Let us love you until you learn to
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To thine own self be true
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A resentment is anger without the
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Stick with the winners
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Take an action, then let go of the results
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Win with the stickers
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Your bottom is wherever you stop digging | Feelings aren’t facts |
Forgiveness is giving up all hope for a
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Progress, Not Perfection
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I'm an egomaniac with an inferiority complex
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Fake it till you make it
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STOP = Stop TO Pray | Push the pause button |
EGO = Easing God Out (or Edging God Out)
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GOD = Good Orderly Direction
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FEAR = False Expectations Appearing Real
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KISS = Keep It Simple Stupid
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HALT: Don't get too Hungry, Angry,
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PUSH = Pray Until Something
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The elevator is broken – take the steps |
Keep your side of the street clean |
Don't compare your insides to other people's
outsides
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One bite is too many and a
thousand is not enough
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Surrendering means you don't have to fight
any more
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I can't, He can, I think I'll let Him
(Steps 1, 2 and 3)
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Resentment is like taking poison and
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Serenity isn't freedom from
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Insanity is doing the same thing over
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Act yourself into right thinking
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Stop telling God how big your problems are -
Start telling your problems how big
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Humility isn’t thinking less of yourself,
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Heard at the OA Birthday Party in Los Angeles:
- If you don’t want to have to turn it over, don’t pick it up.
- There is a bottom below that the bottom I know.
- Zero is easier than one.
- If you can take it or leave it, you can have it.
- OA is not about losing weight just as AA is not about rehabilitating livers.
- A decision without action is a fantasy.
- Insanity is the inability to remember with sufficient force the pain and suffering caused by compulsive overeating.
Other wisdom heard at 12-Step Meetings that are not exactly “sayings”:
- Living in the present means not having conversations with people who are not in the room.
- Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
- Failing to plan is planning to fail.
- As a compulsive overeater, if I make food an option, it will always be the only option.
- Yesterday is history, Tomorrow is a mystery, Today is a gift – that’s why they call it the Present.
- On Steps 6/7: I am convinced God removes my character defects by making them glaringly obvious when I engage in them – unlike before the program when I was oblivious to them.
- If you focus on the weight, you will lose the recovery; if you focus on the recovery, you will lose the weight.
- The symptom is physical, the problem is emotional, the solution is spiritual.
- It is Alcoholism, not Alcoholwasm
- You only have to change one thing – that is everything.
- For every diet there is an equal but opposite binge.
- ISM = Incredibly Short Memory.
- The will of God will not lead me where the Grace of God will not protect me.
- You can be right or you can be happy.
- We come to the program to feel better.
We feel anger better
We feel sadness better
We feel all the other emotions better
And, eventually, we feel joy better too.