12 Step Programs Quotes

#1. I think 12-step programs really work, rehab really works, certain types of therapies and talking to other addicts really work. There are a lot of things that work - that isn't the problem. The problem is getting the addicts to say they're addicts. The problem is admitting it.

Susan Cheever

#2. My spiritual system is 12-step programs. That's the only one I've ever had. I didn't have one before that.

Steve Earle

#3. If you ask me, I think 12-step programs are perfectly valid, can be an enormous help. But it depends on the individual.

Pete Hamill

#4. It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.

Friedrich Schiller

#5. I'm walking this walk, and my life has nothing to do with my perception of the world. It's all God! How do I function within His plan?

Stephen Baldwin

#6. What is fashion? It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail.

Manolo Blahnik

#7. William Cowper said that God made the country, and man made the town. If it was the opposite, there would be no country; because town can be created from the country but the country cannot be created from the town!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#8. There's so much going on in the world. There's so much information being thrown at us - so many things are being sold to us, and we're being told how we should appear and how to be more successful, blah, blah, blah. How does that manifest itself? In the pressures, the stress, this need to escape.

Michael Fassbender

#9. Sometimes memories hit like a wallop, all of a sudden, and hard. Other times, for no reason that anyone can explain, memories take much longer to sink in. They seem to meander a bit before choosing which mind to settle into.

Lisa Graff

#10. Mr. Kennedy, you can't say Dallas doesn't love you!" These were the last words President John F. Kennedy would ever hear. Leslie

Allen Childs

#11. When we understand our relationship to God, we also understand our relationship to one another.

Dallin H. Oaks

#12. In the early days, you would get skinheads, the Eagles and Black Sabbath playing the same show.

Ozzy Osbourne

#13. I think it's good to stimulate your mind.

Mikaela Shiffrin

#14. To the naked eye Boudicca is a haze of noxious green that lurks among fronds of seaweed looking exactly like the aftermath of a chemical spill.

Helen Oyeyemi

#15. All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.

Thelonious Monk

#16. The story I had written wasn't the creased, stit-smeared paper now sitting in the bottom of the trash can on the street. That page was just a pipeline through which I could transmit my feelings from my minds to his.

Etgar Keret

#17. Reflecting on this, Albert LaChance recognized an opportunity - what if the work he and so many others found so fruitful in the 12-Step recovery programs could be expanded to an ecological, a global, or even a cosmic level?

Albert J. LaChance

#18. A man's worth is what he is divided by what he thinks he is.

Eric Hoffer