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.
BILL W.Indecision with the passing of time becomes decision.
More Bill W. Quotes
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More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life. He is very much the actor
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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
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Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us.
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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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Indecision with the passing of time becomes decision.
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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 it is.
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Honesty with ourselves & others gets us sober, but it is tolerance that keeps us that way.
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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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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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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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No matter how unreasonable others may seem, I am responsible for not reacting negatively.
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Almost without exception alcoholics are tortured by loneliness.
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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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