"For me to be quiet for four hours is almost an act of God."
"For me to be quiet for four hours is almost an act of God."
"Is your soul dry from desolation, wrinkled from worry, itchy from alcoholic irritation, rough from resentments?
Try Oil of Al-Anon."
"I am the husband, the brother, the brother-in-law, the son, the grandson, the father of, the father-in-law of alcoholics."
"If your alcoholics and you're in the room - thank you. You're my idea of an open bar...I'll have a double shot of that one."
"... cause some are sicker than others."
"I always thought that if I could be free then I would be happy but, you know, the Al-Anon Program has taught me how to be free...it's an inside job and it doesn't matter that much what 'they' say or 'they' do, it's all inside. And when we have the ability to have some answers in this program, then we're not in bondage anymore. I found, for me, that I was dependent as long as I didn't have answers."
"Whatever happens today is none of my business."
"The world is much bigger than my family of origin and I have a home sweet home in the Fellowship."
"Don't be what you ain't.
Just be what you is.
Cause if you is not what you am,
Then you am not what you is."
"I am a sponge for other people's emotions."
"And elephants do what elephants do."
The Al-Anon spends half a life cleaning up after the elephant. Then the alcoholic comes into the rooms and laughs at the mess they made of "their" lives.
Detachment says in part,
"Elephants do what they do but not to poop on me...but I can love them right where they are..and I didn't have to fix him."
"I quit saying I was sorry so much because that is not my name."