“When I stopped living in the problem and began living in the answer, the problem went away.” — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Going to rehab” is likewise a common refrain in music and film, where it is almost always uncritically presented as the one… — Lance Dodes Copy Share Image
“People suffering with addictions as a rule tend to be well aware of the many “wrongs” they have committed. Awareness of this… — Lance Dodes Copy Share Image
“We create our own reality. The blessing (or problem) with this is that when one creates one's own reality, one must live… — Gary R. Ryan Copy Share Image
“It will take time to clear away the wreck. Though old buildings will eventually be replaced by finer ones, the new structures… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Identifying, they said, was trying to see how I was like the people I was with. Comparing, they told me, was looking… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“They sound like the philosophy of a man who, having a headache, beats himself on the head with a hammer so that… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Danny strolled to the town common, sat on one of the benches in Teenytown and took one of the bottles out of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“...one of the primary differences between alcoholics and nonalcoholics is that nonalcoholics change their behavior to meet their goals and alcoholics change… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There is nothing inherently wrong with apologizing to those who have been harmed, directly or indirectly, by the consequences of addiction. The… — Lance Dodes Copy Share Image
“Although I hate to read publicly, I began to get addicted to speaking publicly. For a grandiose opportunist like myself, AA can… — Jeff Nichols Copy Share Image
“Every year, our state and federal governments spend over $15 billion on substance-abuse treatment for addicts, the vast majority of which are… — Lance Dodes Copy Share Image
“I've been benefited from a dictionary definition I found that reads: "Rationalization is giving a socially acceptable reason for socially unacceptable behavior,… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In the one-treatment-fits-all approach, clients sit in group meetings all day and all evening and listen to each other stories. At the… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
“The degradation woven through these steps also seems unwittingly designed to exacerbate, rather than relieve, the humiliating feelings so common in addiction.… — Lance Dodes Copy Share Image
“AA purports to be open to anyone, as it is stated in Tradition Tree, "The only requirement for AA membership is a… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
“This is the point where the knowing, irony-infused author laughs along with his readers about his time among the aphorisms, how he… — David Carr Copy Share Image
“AA has managed to survive, in part, because members who become and remain sober speak and write about it regularly. This is… — Lance Dodes Copy Share Image
“He also found himself increasingly resentful of the “tally system” that AA uses to measure sobriety: every time he “slipped” and had… — Lance Dodes Copy Share Image
“AA makes inflated claims about itself. Its foundational document, Alcoholics Anonymous (commonly referred to as the “Big Book” and a perennial best… — Lance Dodes Copy Share Image
“Methods to produce an android app As the need for android is enhancing in the modern-day world, designers have a much better… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“…the Crocodiles say they can't even begin to say how many new guys they've seen Come In and then get sucked back… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“To this day, I am amazed at how many of my problems - most of which had nothing to do with drinking,… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Addiction is not a moral defect, and to suggest that does a great disservice to people suffering with this disorder.” — Lance Dodes Copy Share Image
“I have met and listened to a very large number of people who have “failed” at AA and some who continue to… — Lance Dodes Copy Share Image
“Avoid then, the deliberate manufacture of misery, but if trouble comes, cheerfully capitalize it as an opportunity to demonstrate His omnipotence.” — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Peer-reviewed studies peg the success rate of AA somewhere between 5 and 10 percent. That is, about one of every fifteen people… — Lance Dodes Copy Share Image
“We should be sensible, tactful, considerate and humble without being servile or scraping. As God's people we stand on our feet; we… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To be vital, faith must be accompanied by self sacrifice and unselfish, constructive action.” — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Alcohol is good at disinfecting things It can clean a surface or erase memories” — Richard L. Ratliff Copy Share Image
“I have found that the process of discovering who I really am begins with knowing who I really don't want to be.” — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“More than anything, AA offers a comforting veneer of actionable change: it is something you can do.” — Lance Dodes Copy Share Image
“The feeling of having shared in a common peril is one element in the powerful cement which binds us.” — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I simply had to believe in a Spirit of the Universe, who knew neither time nor limitation.” — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“How did people have conversations anyway? How did they meet and then begin to talk as if they had known each other… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“AA spread like wildfire through a country desperate for hope at the end of Prohibition and in the midst of the Great… — Lance Dodes Copy Share Image
“Through the years I had quit on everything that ever mattered: college, going for promotions, relationships - at least the relationships that… — 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
