Life Quote by Alcoholics Anonymous

“The day I became free of alcohol was the day that I fully understood and embraced the truth that I would not be giving…

— Liz Hemingway

“I wasn't an alcoholic. I didn't drink every day, didn't often drink to excess or binge. And could leave it alone completely for large…

— Ellen Hopkins

“The hardest thing I had to deal with in sobriety was my own anger and the violence I lived through in my childhood. I…

— Alcoholics Anonymous

“I carried a bravado about my drinking like I was a hero of debauchery. But on that Christmas Day, I felt like shit. I…

— Nadia Bolz-Weber

“To this day, I am amazed at how many of my problems - most of which had nothing to do with drinking, I believed…

— Alcoholics Anonymous

“It took me one more year to admit that I could no longer control my drinking. And finally on July 7, 1986, I quit,…

— Anne Lamott

“But I also stayed up weeknights after they had retired and drank myself into bed. My thinking about drinking had undergone a great change.…

— Alcoholics Anonymous

“I once heard a sober alcoholic say that drinking never made him happy, but it made him feel like he was going to be…

— Heather King

“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

“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

“They taught us that extending ourselves to others would help us stay sober and sane. But they also wanted us to extend ourselves to…

— Anne Lamott

“Drinking released me from the suffocating fear, the feelings of inadequacy, and the nagging voices at the back of my head that told me…

— Alcoholics Anonymous