Non 12 Step Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Whatever you now do, whatever you now believe, whatever your current circumstances may be, you are perfectly equipped and fully capable of fulfilling your needs and desires.

Chris Prentiss

#3. I believe this country has already been painted by the hand of God. We can cover it over with our own creations, but it will merely mar what is already perfect

Lisa Tawn Bergren

#4. 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

#5. The more the merrier. Too many cooks spoil the broth of destruction.

Gareth Roberts

#6. The punishment approach and bad consequences approach to treatment is the kind of thinking that is prevalent in every residential substance abuse treatment center in the United States of which I'm aware.

Chris Prentiss

#7. You know, there's a 12 step program for gambling. You should look into that.
Twelve steps. Coyote laughed. I'll bet I can do it in six.

Christopher Moore

#8. People who are using it to sell things on Craigslist to holding garage sales - campaigns - the Obama campaign and the Romney campaign both used Square to raise funds.

Jack Dorsey

#9. There's really only one true path to recovery that's using the 12 step program and finding a belief in something greater than yourself (spirituality).

Nikki Sixx

#10. I just can't get with this idea that literature is a 12-step program. If someone wants to read a book to see good people get rewarded and the bad people get punished, essentially what they want is a fairy tale.

China Mieville

#11. We already have a federation. The 11, soon to be 12, member States adopting the euro have already given up part of their sovereignty, monetary sovereignty, and formed a monetary union, and that is the first step towards a federation.

Joschka Fischer

#12. benediction. Below the window, on one of the bastioned

Anthony Doerr

#13. To me, it is like a diabetic with insulin. If that diabetic stops taking insulin, they will die, and I believe that if I don't follow the 12-step programme, I will regress, and that could eventually be the death of me.

Trinny Woodall

#14. 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

#15. The 12-step chocolate program: NEVER BE MORE THAN 12 STEPS AWAY FROM CHOCOLATE!

Terry Moore

#16. Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

Malcolm X

#17. Non-mainstream people seem to balk at the idea of 12-step. A lot of us think 12-step recovery means sitting in a church basement full of Republicans and Christians who drink to much.

Bucky Sinister

#18. The first step toward a genuine theory of consciousness, I believe, is the realization that consciousness is not located in the organism. Rather, consciousness is a four-quadrant affair, and it exists, if it exists at all, distributed across all four quadrants, anchored equally in each.12

Ken Wilber

#19. I spent a year in a 12-step program, really committed, because I could not believe what had happened - that I might have killed myself.

Carrie Fisher

#20. I think we need a 12-step group for non-stop talkers. We're going to call it On and On Anon.

Paula Poundstone

#21. While in the clinic, I discovered I had problems with concentration, motivation, attitude, and temper. I have found a new way of life through the clinic's program and a 12-step recovery plan.

Albert Belle

#22. Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step up their 'critical thinking.'

David Harsanyi

#23. Negative emotions, like depression or anxiety, have been shown to affect our immune system. Stress impedes wound healing.

Chris Prentiss

#24. By changing how you perceive things and how you act upon those perceptions, you will change your life.

Chris Prentiss

#25. Sitting with Maharaj-ji creates who I am as much as sitting in a 12 Step meeting creates who I am.

Jai Uttal

#26. Are you repeating someone else's narrative, taking it for granted? Talk therapy sessions and 12-step recovery shares help develop the ability to present a coherent life narrative through the safe structure of clear rules of communication that support healthy self-expression and self-awareness.

Alexandra Katehakis

#27. Any time a running back reaches the age of 31 or 32, he has to lose a step. No one is a freak of nature. No one is going to be able to take the pounding a running back has to take over a 10- or 12-year career and not lose a step.

Al Michaels

#28. All religions must be made child-proof. Our teachers' unions have done good work in this field, K through 12. Delaying first communions and bar mitzvahs until age 21 would be another positive step.

P. J. O'Rourke

#29. 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

#30. It's just like an alcoholic to think he's doing the Zombie Apocalypse wrong.

Michele W. Miller

#31. I stopped painting because I was so shocked at what I was doing and how much I wasn't in the work. The work was alien to me. I didn't know how to paint in a way that would get me out of this funk.

Lisa Yuskavage