More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life. He is very much the actor — Bill W Actors Copy Share Image
“Nothing can be more demoralizing than a clinging and abject dependance upon another human being. This often amounts to the demand for… — Bill W And love Copy Share Image
No personal calamity is so crushing that something true and great can't be made of it — Bill W Calamity Copy Share Image
Honesty with ourselves & others gets us sober, but it is tolerance that keeps us that way. — Bill W Honesty Copy Share Image
It must never be forgotten that the purpose of Alcoholics Anonymous is to sober up alcoholics. There is no religious or spiritual… — Bill W Acceptance Copy Share Image
Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker. — Bill W Alcohol Copy Share Image
Learning how to live in the greatest peace, partnership, and brotherhood with all men and women, of whatever description, is a moving… — Bill W Adventure Copy Share Image
We know that permanent sobriety can be attained only by a most revolutionary change in the life and outlook of the individual. — Bill W Individual Copy Share Image
How dark it is before the dawn! In reality that was the beginning of my last debauch. I was soon to be… — Bill W Dark Copy Share Image
No matter how unreasonable others may seem, I am responsible for not reacting negatively. Regardless of what is happening around me I… — Bill W Best teacher Copy Share Image
Each day my friend's simple talk in our kitchen multiplies itself in a widening circle of peace on earth and good will… — Bill W Circles Copy Share Image
For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become a regular habit,… — Bill W Able Copy Share Image
Nowadays my brain no longer races compulsively in either elation, grandiosity, or depression. I have been given a quiet place in bright… — Bill W Brain Copy Share Image
You are asking yourself, as all of us must: 'Who am I?' . . . 'Where am I?' . . . 'Whence… — Bill W Asking Copy Share Image
We lose the fear of making decisions, great and small; as we realize that should our choice prove wrong we can, if… — Bill W Choice Copy Share Image
AA is no success story in the ordinary sense of the word. It is a story of suffering transmuted, under grace, into… — Bill W Grace Copy Share Image
In the wake of my spiritual experience there came a vision of a society of alcoholics. — Bill W Alcoholics Copy Share Image
Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us. — Bill W Belonging Copy Share Image
I have become a pupil of the AA movement rather than the teacher. — Bill W Inspirational Copy Share Image
We admitted we were powerless over alcohol-that our lives had become unmanageable. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves… — Bill W 12 step Copy Share Image