Apparently, the course of relative humility and progress will have to lie somewhere between these extremes. In our slow progress away from rebellion, true perfection is doubtless several millennia away
BILL W.When brimming with gratitude, one’s heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion we can ever know.
More Bill W. Quotes
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Because of our kinship in suffering, our channels of contact have always been charged with the language of the heart.
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We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.
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We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given to us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it.
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If more gifts are to be received, our awakening has to go on. As it does go on, we find that bit by bit we can discard the old life – the one that did not work – for a new life that can and does work under any conditions whatever.
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Years ago I used to commiserate with all people who suffered. Now I commiserate only with those who suffer in ignorance, who do not understand the purpose and ultimate utility of pain
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Almost without exception alcoholics are tortured by loneliness.
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Guilt is really the reverse side of the coin of pride. Guilt aims at self-destruction, and pride aims at the destruction of others.
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Each day my friend’s simple talk in our kitchen multiplies itself in a widening circle of peace on earth and good will to men.
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I have become a pupil of the AA movement rather than the teacher.
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We lose the fear of making decisions, great and small; as we realize that should our choice prove wrong we can, if we will, learn from the experience.
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I was not an atheist. Few people really are, for that means blind faith in the strange proposition that this universe originated in a cipher and aimlessly rushes nowhere.
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I was soon to be catapulted into what I like to call the fourth dimension of existence. I was to know happiness, peace, and usefulness, in a way of life that is incredibly more wonderful as time passes.
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Indecision with the passing of time becomes decision.
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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 regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong.
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The temporary good is enemy to the permanent best.
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