Nowadays my brain no longer races compulsively in either elation, grandiosity, or depression. I have been given a quiet place in bright sunshine.
BILL W.Nowadays my brain no longer races compulsively in either elation, grandiosity, or depression. I have been given a quiet place in bright sunshine.
More Bill W. Quotes
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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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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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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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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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More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life. He is very much the actor
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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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Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.
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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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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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Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us.
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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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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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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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Because of our kinship in suffering, our channels of contact have always been charged with the language of the heart.
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The temporary good is enemy to the permanent best.
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