Top 27 Twelve Step Quotes
#1. I stand up, trying to shake myself mentally. Get over him, Maggie, I instruct myself. I need to stop. I really do. I want to. I'm going to. I sound like a drug addict. Perhaps there's a twelve-step program for me. Priest Lovers Anonymous.
Kristan Higgins
#2. Billions of years before twelve step groups, God committed shotgun suicide. Today wall scrapings share His gratitude stories.
Brian Spellman
#3. Have you ever thought about a Twelve Step program for people who talk too much? You could call it On and On Anon.
Mary Doria Russell
#4. * Location: Break room.
* Caffeine Dependency: Approaching twelve-step program territory.
Qwen Slasbury
#5. I need those nukes, the chief said. I need them, I need them right now.
I don't want to be an enabler, sir. I'd rather get you into a twelve step program to help you break this addiction.
Dean Koontz
#6. I don't know about the rest of the country but in New York more people have learned anonymity from rent control than ever discovered it in a twelve-step program.
Lawrence Block
#7. In a sense, evolution adheres to the classic twelve-step program: it takes things one day at a time. It does not strive for perfection; it does not strive at all. There is no progress, no plans, no scala natura, or scale of nature, that ranks organisms from lowly to superior, primitive to advanced.
Natalie Angier
#8. The principles of Twelve Step recovery are the opposite of our character defects.
Anonymous
#9. Twelve-step promotes spirituality, not religion. It gives a practical, day-to-day spirituality that tells me what I can and cannot control. There is room to be imperfect and to be someone who struggles to find God.
Melody Beattie
#10. Over the years I realized the damage fundamentalism did to my own spiritual and mental health. I've spend time recovering, studying scripture, sessions with a therapist, twelve step recovery.
Richard Rossi
#11. I recovered from recovering so no longer celebrate not doing bad things to defend myself as good. I added new bad for good measure.
Brian Spellman
#12. 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
#13. You know what? I don't care. I'm going to do what I want to do.
Kristen Stewart
#14. Contrary to popular opinion, the Old Testament is not a single book with one unified view of who God is and how life works.
Anonymous
#15. Better to try understanding the sun than a woman.
Robert Jordan
#16. Can you see that meetings and centers that don't address the real causes of dependency are almost certain to be little or no help? They actually can be very damaging.
Chris Prentiss
#17. It's the only way that YOUR life is gonna have any value to you. If you're just living the same life that everybody else is living what's the point?
Todd Rundgren
#18. If we knew we were to die at twelve o'clock tomorrow night, would we have to step up our evangelistic program, or could we in all good conscience carry on just as we are?
Ray Comfort
#21. There is no normal. I've never met a normal person. The concept is flawed. It implies that there is only one way people are supposed to be, and that can't possible be true. Human experience is far too varied.
Maureen Johnson
#22. The great thing coming from sports is you understand the concept of a team. It leaves no room for being selfish, and that's something I picked up from home.
Michael Strahan
#23. Gotta admit, I wasn't committed to the task," Ryker confessed. "But for a bitch in a tight tee with a great rack who makes twelve layer cakes and likes drunk sex, I'll step it up," he offered.
Kristen Ashley
#24. Arterial-plaque specials that save minutes now can cost years, later on.
Barbara Kingsolver
#25. 40 THINGS THAT PROVE GOD CARES ABOUT GIRLS, including He made babies so cute! and He invented Australian accents! and There are no diets in heaven!
Kathleen Hale
#26. You can't truly hear your own voice until the shouting around you disappears. New ideas and possibilities - our own ideas, our own possibilities - will occur only when we step away from the Virtual Panopticon.
John Twelve Hawks
