“I wondered how this misery would end. I was full of fear. I was afraid to tell others what I felt lest… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We must lose our fear of creditors no matter how far we have to go, for we are liable to drink if… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I knew firsthand that mysterious state of people who appear to be sure of themselves but are actually eaten alive with fear… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Everywhere he sees people filled with anger and fear, society breaking up into warring fragments. Each fragment says to the others, “We… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Some of the things that used to stop me in my tracks from fear still make me nervous in the anticipation of… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The last few months were filled with fear and self-pity. I began to contemplate suicide with increasing regularity, yet I was afraid… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Just an unstable woman, undisciplined, poorly adjusted, and filled with nameless fears.” — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Selfishness, self-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of our troubles. Driven by a hundred forms of fear, self-delusion, self-seeking, and self-pity,… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I had heartsickness, shame, and fear bordering on panic, and no complete escape any longer except in oblivion.” — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Drinking released me from the suffocating fear, the feelings of inadequacy, and the nagging voices at the back of my head that… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Now I was in a strange house, in a strange city, and fear gripped me. I shut myself in my room, which… — 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