"No personal calamity is so crushing that something……" — Bill W.
"No personal calamity is so crushing that something true and great can't be made of it"
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34 Quotes by Bill W.
Bill W. has 34 quotes on this site.
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Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.
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In God's economy, nothing is wasted. Through failure, we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed, painful though…
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We lose the fear of making decisions, great and small; as we realize that should our choice prove wrong we…
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The real question is whether we can learn anything from our experiences upon which we may grow and help others…
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I try hard to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When…
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For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become a…
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Honesty with ourselves & others gets us sober, but it is tolerance that keeps us that way.
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Learning how to live in the greatest peace, partnership, and brotherhood with all men and women, of whatever description, is…
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Is sobriety all that we are to expect of a spiritual awakening? No, sobriety is only a bare beginning; it…
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More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life. He is very much the actor
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Nothing can be more demoralizing than a clinging and abject dependence upon another human being. This often amounts to the…
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Nothing matters more to AA's future welfare than the manner in which we use the colossus of modern communication. Used…
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More Calamity Quotes
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
— Pietro Aretino
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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
— Aristotle
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had…
— Joseph Addison
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Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
— Ambrose Bierce
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It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to…
— Aeschylus
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There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong…
— Eldridge Cleaver
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When you meet with crosses and calamities, say, "Now I see God's justice and God's truth; now I see the…
— William Whately
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Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be…
— Sun Tzu
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If you will take it into your mind to be sincere in throwing away your life for your master, you…
— Torii Mototada
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Were not the disadvantages of slavery too obvious to stand in need of it, I might enumerate and describe the…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Other duties become pressing and absorbing and crowd our prayer. "Choked to death" would be the coroner's verdict in many…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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Now an army is exposed to six several calamities, not arising from natural causes, 1 but from faults for which…
— Sun Tzu
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