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Alcoholism Recovery Program

A collection of some of the witty, wise, and wacky things heard in meetings.

My sponsor said for the first year your thoughts are for “entertainment purposes only.”

I wish I wasn’t an alcoholic so I could drink all the time.

Resentment is when we re-suffer.  Fear is when we pre-suffer. 

I was different from the rest of my family. You could say I was the “white sheep” in my family.    – Black man (36 years)

The longer I’m sober the better the people in my life get.

I’ve been living in the wreckage of my future.

My brain was beaten by a fluid.