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.
BILL W.Is sobriety all that we are to expect of a spiritual awakening? No, sobriety is only a bare beginning; it is only the first gift of the first awakening.
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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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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In the wake of my spiritual experience there came a vision of a society of alcoholics.
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No matter how unreasonable others may seem, I am responsible for not reacting negatively.
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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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The temporary good is enemy to the permanent best.
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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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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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No personal calamity is so crushing that something true and great can’t be made of it
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I have become a pupil of the AA movement rather than the teacher.
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Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.
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Honesty with ourselves & others gets us sober, but it is tolerance that keeps us that way.
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Nowadays my brain no longer races compulsively in either elation, grandiosity, or depression. I have been given a quiet place in bright sunshine.
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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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Indecision with the passing of time becomes decision.
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