Almost without exception alcoholics are tortured by loneliness.
BILL W.When brimming with gratitude, one’s heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion we can ever know.
More Bill W. Quotes
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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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Indecision with the passing of time becomes decision.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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If I judge others, I am probably judging myself. Whoever is upsetting me most is my best teacher. I have much to learn from him or her, and in my hearts, I should thank that person.
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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.
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Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.
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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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