When brimming with gratitude, one’s heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion we can ever know.
BILL W.How dark it is before the dawn! In reality that was the beginning of my last debauch.
More Bill W. Quotes
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I am the creator of my own reality. When I [review my day], I know that I must stop judging others.
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Almost without exception alcoholics are tortured by loneliness.
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I have become a pupil of the AA movement rather than the teacher.
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We admitted we were powerless over alcohol-that our lives had become unmanageable. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves would restore us to sanity.
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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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AA is no success story in the ordinary sense of the word. It is a story of suffering transmuted, under grace, into spiritual progress.
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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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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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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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True ambition is not what we thought it was. True ambition is the profound desire to live usefully and walk humbly under the grace of God.
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Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.
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How dark it is before the dawn! In reality that was the beginning of my last debauch.
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Regardless of what is happening around me I will always have the prerogative, and the responsibility, of choosing what happens within me.
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Learning how to live in the greatest peace, partnership, and brotherhood with all men and women, of whatever description, is a moving and fascinating adventure.
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No demands are made on anyone. An experience is offered which members may accept or reject. That is up to them.
BILL W.