The temporary good is enemy to the permanent best.
BILL W.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.
More Bill W. Quotes
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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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How dark it is before the dawn! In reality that was the beginning of my last debauch.
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More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life. He is very much the actor
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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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The real question is whether we can learn anything from our experiences upon which we may grow and help others to grow in the likeness and image of God.
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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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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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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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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 have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.
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When brimming with gratitude, one’s heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion we can ever know.
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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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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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We know that permanent sobriety can be attained only by a most revolutionary change in the life and outlook of the individual.
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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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