OA Slogans

These are some saying that have been heard at OA meetings and other 12-step program meetings for many years:

Heard at the OA Birthday Party in Los Angeles:

If you don't want to have to turn it over, don't pick it up.
There is a bottom below that the bottom I know.
Zero is easier than one.
If you can take it or leave it, you can have it.
OA is not about losing weight just as AA is not about rehabilitating livers.
A decision without action is a fantasy.
Insanity is the inability to remember with sufficient force the pain and suffering caused by compulsive overeating.

Other wisdom heard at 12-Step Meetings that are not exactly "sayings":

Living in the present means not having conversations with people who are not in the room.
Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
As a compulsive overeater, if I make food an option, it will always be the only option.
Yesterday is history, Tomorrow is a mystery, Today is a gift - that's why they call it the Present.
On Steps 6/7: I am convinced God removes my character defects by making them glaringly obvious when I engage in them - unlike before the program when I was oblivious to them.
If you focus on the weight, you will lose the recovery; if you focus on the recovery, you will lose the weight.
The symptom is physical, the problem is emotional, the solution is spiritual.
It is Alcoholism, not Alcoholwasm
You only have to change one thing - that is everything.
For every diet there is an equal but opposite binge.
ISM = Incredibly Short Memory.
The will of God will not lead me where the Grace of God will not protect me.
You can be right or you can be happy.

We feel anger better

We feel sadness better

We feel all the other emotions better

And, eventually, we feel joy better too.