“My whole life seemed to be centered around doing what I wanted to do, without regard for the rights, wishes, or privileges… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I came to A.A. in order to stop drinking; what I received in return was my life.” — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My life on campus revolved around parties, drinking, and men. I surrounded myself with people who drank as I did.” — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Life at home was falling apart around me. Every time I turned around I’d done something to make my mother cry.” — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We cannot subscribe to the belief that this life is a vale of tears, though it once was just that for many… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“At a very young age, as children do, I had to make sense out of my life, so I came to the… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I have no control over some of the things that happen in my life, but with the help of God I can… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“How I ran my home, I don’t know. I went on, realizing what I was becoming, hating myself for it, bitter, blaming… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“They seemed to have all the ingredients for successful living: philosophy, faith, a sense of humor (they could laugh at themselves), clear-cut… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“New Year’s resolutions I recycled for a dozen years while my drinking and my life kept getting worse. Alcohol had enslaved me.… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“As the treatment progressed, I began to get a picture of myself, of the temperament that had caused me so much trouble.… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Acceptance is the answer to all my problemskey to all my problems today.When I am distrubed, it is because I find some… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I have come to believe that hard times are not just meaningless suffering and that something good might turn up at any… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I feel myself a useful member of the human race at last. I have something to contribute to humanity, since I am… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The great fact is just this, and nothing less: That we have had deep and effective spiritual experiences* which have revolutionized our… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When I joined A.A., I did so for the sole purpose of getting sober and staying sober. I didn’t realize I would… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“and I actually talked about God, the one who had abandoned me when I was very little, very frightened, and very hurt.” — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share
“New Year’s resolutions I recycled for a dozen years while my drinking and my life kept getting worse. Alcohol had enslaved me. I was… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share
“The horrors grew. Inner horrors. On the surface it looked as though I was more or less keeping it together, but day by day… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share
“How I ran my home, I don’t know. I went on, realizing what I was becoming, hating myself for it, bitter, blaming life, blaming… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share
“Acceptance is the answer to all my problemskey to all my problems today.When I am distrubed, it is because I find some person, place,… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share
“It’s like a man standing on a bridge in the middle of a river with his pants on fire wondering why his pants are… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share
“But in the light of the new understanding that I have found in A.A., I have been able to interpret that defeat and that… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share
“I actually wanted a drink, besides feeling that I had to have a drink.” — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share
“When I got home in the evening, I drank at least half the fifth in front of the television set and watched reruns until… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share
“I wondered how this misery would end. I was full of fear. I was afraid to tell others what I felt lest they would… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share
“I tried everything. I moved a thousand miles away from home to Chicago and a new environment. I studied art; I desperately endeavored to… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share
“Dishonest thinking, prejudice, ego, antagonism toward anyone and everyone who dares to cross him, vanity, and a critical attitude are character defects that gradually… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share
“We must lose our fear of creditors no matter how far we have to go, for we are liable to drink if we are… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share
“So I continued spinning fantasies, and now alcohol fueled my dreams. I would make great discoveries, win the Nobel Prize in medicine and in… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share
“Above all, I am grateful to A.A. for my sobriety, which means so much to my family, friends, and business associates, because God and… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share
