“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
“...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
“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
“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
“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 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
“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
“When I stopped living in the problem and began living in the answer, the problem went away.” — 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
“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
“Almost none of us liked the self-searching, the leveling of our pride, the confession of shortcomings which the process requires for its… — 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
“To be vital, faith must be accompanied by self sacrifice and unselfish, constructive action.” — Alcoholics Anonymous 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
“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 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
“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
“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
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“I actually wanted a drink, besides feeling that I had to have a drink.” — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
