A Day at a Time Quotes

“It is the privilege of wisdom to listen,” Oliver Wendell Holmes once wrote. If I try as hard as I can to cultivate the art of listening—uncritically and without making premature judgments—chances are great that I’ll progress more rapidly in my recovery. If I try as hard as I can to listen to the feelings and thoughts expressed—rather than to the “speaker”—I may be blessed with an unexpectedly helpful idea. The essential quality of good listening is humility, which reflects the fact that God’s voice speaks to us even through the least and most inarticulate of His children.”
― Anonymous, A Day at a Time: Daily Reflections for Recovering People

“Defiance is an offspring of delusion.”
― Anonymous, A Day at a Time: Daily Reflections for Recovering People

“Today I Pray Dear Higher Power: I want to thank you for spreading calm over my confusion, for making the jangled chords of my human relationships harmonize again, for putting together the shattered pieces of my Humpty Dumpty self, for giving me as a sobriety present a whole great expanded world of marvels and opportunities. May I remain truly Yours. Yours truly. Today I Will Remember Prayer, however simple, nourishes the soul.”
― Anonymous, A Day at a Time: Daily Reflections for Recovering People

“May I learn to pray broadly—that God’s will be done, that God remove my shortcomings. No need to specify what these shortcomings are; God who knows all, knows. May I learn that details are not necessary in my praying. All that matters is my humility and my faith that God, does indeed, have the Power to change my life.”
― Anonymous, A Day at a Time: Daily Reflections for Recovering People

“Resentments cause violence: resentments cause illness in non-violent people.”
― Anonymous, A Day at a Time: Daily Reflections for Recovering People

“God grant me the SERENITY to accept the things I cannot change; COURAGE to change the things I can; and WISDOM to know the difference—living one day at a time; accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it; trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His Will; that I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with Him forever in the next. Amen.”
― Anonymous, A Day at a Time: Daily Reflections for Recovering People

“the actions of men are like the index of a book; they point out what is most remarkable in them ….”?”
― Anonymous, A Day at a Time: Daily Reflections for Recovering People

“Whoever learns to pray keeps on praying.”
― Anonymous, A Day at a Time: Daily Reflections for Recovering People

“If we can only accept, we find ourselves becoming gradually aware of a force for good that’s always there to help us.”
― Anonymous, A Day at a Time: Daily Reflections for Recovering People

“Today I Pray May I make the most of myself in all ways. May I begin to look outward to people and opportunities and wonderful resources around me. As I become less ingrown and understand myself better in relation to others, may I be less touchy and thin-skinned. May I shrug off my old “the world-is-out-to-get-me” feeling and see that same world as my treasure-house, God-given and boundless.”
― Anonymous, A Day at a Time: Daily Reflections for Recovering People

“Today I Pray May I know the blessed relief and unburdening that come when I admit I have done something wrong. May I learn—perhaps for the first time in my entire life—to take responsibility for my own actions and to face the consequences. May I learn again how to match actions with consequences.”
― Anonymous, A Day at a Time: Daily Reflections for Recovering People

“Today I Pray May I make no decision, engineer no change in the course of my lifestream, without calling upon my Higher Power. May I have faith that God’s plan for me is better than any scheme I could devise for myself. Today I Will Remember God is the architect. I am the builder.”
― Anonymous, A Day at a Time: Daily Reflections for Recovering People

“Today I Pray Help me to take inventory each day of my stock of my new, healthy thoughts, throwing out the old ones as I happen upon them without regret or nostalgia. For I have outgrown those old ideas, which are as scuffed and run-over as an old pair of shoes. Now, in the light, I can see that they are filled with holes.”
― Anonymous, A Day at a Time: Daily Reflections for Recovering People

“Today I Pray May I know the freedom that comes with surrender to a Higher Power—that most important kind of surrender that means neither “giving in” nor “giving up” but “giving over” my will to the will of God. Like a weary fugitive from spiritual order, may I stop hiding, dodging, running. May I find peace in surrender, in the knowledge that God wills that I be whole and healthy and He will show me the way.”
― Anonymous, A Day at a Time: Daily Reflections for Recovering People