Quotes About The 12 Steps

#1. Perfection, rather, is the ability to incorporate imperfection! There's no other way to live: You either incorporate imperfection, or you fall into denial. That's how the Spirit moves in or out of our lives. - from Breathing Under Water: Spirituality and the 12 Steps

Richard Rohr

#2. I might have to take the 12 steps to Workaholics Anonymous.

The Edge

#3. One of the 12 steps is to admit that you're powerless, but I think that's bullshit. I think it's important to empower yourself by facing the stuff that triggers you.

Zachary Cole Smith

#4. They got drunk and high on a regular basis, but this is a vestige of youth that you either quit while you're young or you become an addict if you don't die.
If you are the Old Guy In The Punk House, move out. You have a substance abuse problem.

Bucky Sinister

#5. I'm talking to you and it's basically a direct communication, whereas if I'm writing a letter to you and you read the letter, there are like 12 extra deconstruction and reconstruction steps in the communication.

Kevin J. Anderson

#6. Every piece of work in the shops moves. Save 10 steps a day for each of the 12,000 employees, and you will have saved 50 miles of wasted motion and misspent energy.

Henry Ford

#7. I'll tell you how to solve this abortion thing ... Those unwanted babies ... ? Leave about 12 of them on the Supreme Court steps.

Bill Hicks

#8. 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

#9. I take certain steps to make sure I'm relevant artistically. I always have new music and a reason to be on the road. I'm not just playing 'Get By' over and over. I have 12 albums.

Talib Kweli

#10. So go ahead and
make your way
Back from the edge
of yesterday
No one knows what
Can't be known
'Cause when you start
You're all alone
But take enough steps
Take enough steps
Take enough steps
And someday
Someday you'll be home
Heather Wells, Untitled

Meg Cabot

#11. Do not wait and hope to be discovered ... make yourself so you cannot be denied!

Jamie McCall

#12. 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

#13. We work it out, or live it out.

Melody Beattie

#14. Remember, I am always 12 steps ahead..

Silvia Flores

#15. Just as others pray daily, you should think to yourself daily about what you can do to be closer to this Ideal Image. Think: "What can I do today to make my life better?" "What can I do to become more like my Ideal Image?

Bucky Sinister

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

Terry Moore

#17. Jefferson had his own privy just steps away from his bed alcove, one of three in the house proper.12 He used pieces of scrap paper for hygiene purposes.13 (Examples were collected from his privy by a family member on the day of Jefferson's death and now survive in the Library of Congress.)14 He

Jon Meacham

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

Paula Poundstone

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

Jai Uttal

#20. 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

#21. One day at a time, sweet Jesus. Whoever wrote that one hadn't a clue. A day is a fuckin' eternity

Roddy Doyle