“I don’t believe I was smarter than anyone else, as I’m often told by those who came in at a later age.… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is a spiritual axiom that every time we are disturbed, no matter what the cause, there is something wrong with us.” — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“For the first time I realized that perhaps my drinking was getting a bit out of hand, but I knew you’d drink… — 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 you discover a prospect for Alcoholics Anonymous, find out all you can about him. If he does not want to stop… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Children were very cruel and made fun of me. I could tell you many stories of times I was treated badly, and… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The thought came to me that if God, as my mother said, was a vengeful God, he couldn’t be a loving God.… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing, or situation—some fact of my life—unacceptable to me, and… — 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
“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 used to watch a lot of late-night movies—it was my time to relax by having a few drinks,” — 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
