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| A program of action. |
| A program of attraction rather than promotion. |
| A threefold disease. |
| Abstinence is a choice. |
| Abstinence is the most important thing in my life, without exception. |
| Acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. |
| Act as if. |
| Action is the magic word. |
| Anger may identify a problem, but it will never solve one. |
| Attitude + Gratitude = Recovery. |
| Awareness, acceptance, action. |
| "Big Books” that are falling apart usually belong to people who aren’t. |
| Bring the body and the mind will follow. |
| Came to believe. |
| Carry the message. |
| Clean up your side of the street. |
| Denial is not a river in Egypt. |
| Do the next, right thing. |
| Don’t compare your inside with someone else’s outside. |
| Don’t leave before the miracle happens. |
| Don’t pick up no matter what! No matter what don’t pick up! |
| Don’t take other people’s inventory. |
| Don’t take that first compulsive bite. |
| Don’t wait until you feel better to do it. Do it and you’ll feel better. |
| Easy does it -- but Do it! |
| Easy does it. |
| Expect a miracle. |
| Expectations are premeditated resentments. |
| Expectations are resentments under construction. |
| Experience, Strength and Hope. |
| Face your stuff, don’t stuff your face. |
| Faith without works is dead. |
| Fake it till you make it. |
| Feelings are not facts. |
| Fellowship of the spirit. |
| First things first. | |
| Food is not an option to solve a problem. |
| Food thoughts are just thoughts. You don't have to act. |
| God doesn’t make junk. |
| God doesn't close one door without opening a better one. |
| God has three answers-YES—NO—and WAIT. |
| Gratitude is the hinge upon which an abstinent life swings. |
| Half measures availed us nothing. |
| Happy, Joyous and Free. |
| Hatred destroys the hater. |
| Have an attitude of gratitude. |
| Help is only a phone call away. |
| Honest, open-minded, willing |
| Humbly ask for help. |
| I can't. God can. I think I'll let God. |
| I have a disease that tells me I don’t have a disease. |
| I resigned from the debating society. |
| I traded a lot of pain, fear, and despair for my seat in O. A. |
| I was always comparing my insides to someone else's outsides. |
| I won't starve to death between meals. |
| If I have a problem and eat over it, then I have two problems. |
| If you don’t buy it, you can’t eat it. |
| If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. |
| If you feel God is far away; guess who moved! |
| If you pray, why worry? If you worry, why pray? |
| If you're not doing enough for OA, you're not doing enough for yourself. |
| If you're too busy to go to OA meetings, you're busier than God wants you to be. |
| Insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different result. |
| It takes what it takes until it takes. |
| It works if you work it. |
| It’s easier to stay abstinent than to get abstinent. |
| It’s never too late. |
| It’s not odd; it’s God. |
| It's about the food until it's not about the food. |
| It's not what you're eating; it's what's eating you. |
| Just for today |
| Keep coming back! |
| Keep it simple. |
| Let go and let God. |
| Life, on life's terms. |
| Listen and learn. |
| Live and let live. |
| Living in the solution. |
| Love and Tolerance is our code. |
| Meeting makers make it. |
| Meetings are our medicine. |
| Miracles happen. |
| My Higher Power is whatever I turn to in a crisis. |
| My serenity is inversely proportional to my expectations. |
| No pain, no gain. |
| Nothing changes if nothing changes. |
| Nothing tastes as good as abstinence feels! |
| One day at a time. |
| One is too many: one thousand is not enough. |
| Peace is seeing a sunset and knowing who to thank. |
| Principles before personalities. |
| Procrastination is the thief of time. |
| Progress not perfection |
| Recovery is a choice. |
| Recovery is a journey not a destination. |
| Relax! God is in charge. |
| Repetition is the only form of permanence. |
| Serenity to accept; Courage to change; Wisdom to know. |
| Service is slimming. |
| Sponsors carry the message -- not the person. |
| Sponsorship-together we recover. |
| Stinking thinking leads to eating. |
| Seven days without a meeting makes one weak. |
| Step into the sunlight of the spirit. |
| Sweep my side of the street. |
| Take what you like and leave the rest. |
| The best things in life aren't things. |
| The disease is physical. The cause is emotional. The cure is spiritual. |
| The disease is progressive; so is recovery. |
| The elevator is broken. Use the steps. |
| The only person I can change or regulate is me. |
| The person with the longest abstinence is the person who got up the earliest today. |
| The way to ask for help is to say, "I need help." |
| The worst day abstinent is better than the best day compulsively overeating. |
| There is a solution. |
| There is no easier, softer way. |
| There is no situation so bad that a compulsive bite can't make it worse. |
| Think first! |
| Think! Pray! Act! |
| Think, think, and think! |
| This too, shall pass. |
| Together we can. |
| Together we recover. |
| Trace it, face it, and erase it. |
| Unless we work the program, the program will not work. |
| Utilize, don’t analyze. |
| We are only one bite away from a binge. |
| We can do what I can’t. |
| We find love and understanding beyond our wildest dreams |
| We need the tools to work the steps. |
| We never have to hurt ourselves with food again. |
| Welcome to O.A., Welcome home. |
| We'd be surprised what people think of us if we knew how seldom they do!! |
| Welcome back! Welcome home! |
| We'll love you until you learn to love yourself. |
| What other people think of me is none of my business. |
| Whatever I put before my abstinence, I will loose along with my abstinence. |
| Whatever you resist persists. |
| When I don’t think I need a meeting, I need a meeting. |
| When in doubt -- don't. |
| When the student is ready, the teacher will appear. |
| Willing to go to any length. |
| Would you rather be right or serene? |
| You are as sick as your secrets. |
| You can’t keep it unless you give it away. |
| You can’t rock the boat; if you are too busy rowing. |
| You can't do it alone, but only you can do it. |
| You have to be sick and tired of being sick and tired. |
| You may not get what you want but you will get what you need. |
